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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 01, 2008
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2000
Applicant:
Tsukasa Ogino, Yokohama, JP;
Inventor:
Tsukasa Ogino, Yokohama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/177 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
There is disclosed a network status server for receiving an inquiry from a web server accessed by a client, and using path information and determining the optimum web server to return a response to the accessed web server. The web server receiving the response instructs the client to access the optimum web server from the next time. In this constitution, accesses among the dispersed/arranged web server sites are leveled, and access loads can be leveled even among the web servers in the respective web server sites. Moreover, the client can access the optimum web server.