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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2000
Andrew Hilliard Arrowood, Raleigh, NC (US);
Wesley Mcmillian Devine, Apex, NC (US);
David Anthony Herr, Apex, NC (US);
Lap Thiet Huynh, Raleigh, NC (US);
Dinakaran B. Joseph, Durham, NC (US);
Alan George Packett, Raleigh, NC (US);
Andrew Hilliard Arrowood, Raleigh, NC (US);
Wesley McMillian Devine, Apex, NC (US);
David Anthony Herr, Apex, NC (US);
Lap Thiet Huynh, Raleigh, NC (US);
Dinakaran B. Joseph, Durham, NC (US);
Alan George Packett, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems and computer program products provide for distributing workload between data processing systems executing an application which communicates over a network, by receiving a request for a connection to the application over the network, obtaining workload information for the data processing systems, obtaining network quality of service (QoS) information associated with communications over the network for the data processing systems and utilizing the workload information and the corresponding network quality of service information for the data processing systems so as to provide workload metrics. The requested connection to the application is distributed based on the generated workload metrics.