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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2006
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2003
David Karger, Cambridge, MA (US);
Eric Lehman, Cambridge, MA (US);
F. Thomson Leighton, Newtonville, MA (US);
Matthew Levine, Somerville, MA (US);
Daniel Lewin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Rina Panigrahy, Mountain View, CA (US);
David Karger, Cambridge, MA (US);
Eric Lehman, Cambridge, MA (US);
F. Thomson Leighton, Newtonville, MA (US);
Matthew Levine, Somerville, MA (US);
Daniel Lewin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Rina Panigrahy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to distributing a request to one a plurality of resources. A request is mapped to a location in mathematical mapping space. Each of the plurality of resources is mapped to a respective location or locations in the mathematical mapping space. The request is allocated to one of the resources based on a mathematical relationship between the request location and the resource location in the mathematical mapping space.