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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2009
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2003
John Andrew Aiken, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Sue Huang, Raleigh, NC (US);
Mark William Mcclintock, Raleigh, NC (US);
John Andrew Aiken, Jr., Raleigh, NC (US);
Sue Huang, Raleigh, NC (US);
Mark William McClintock, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Connections from a client to respective ones of a plurality of application instances that receive data from a shared communication protocol stack are assigned by defining an affinity between the client and a corresponding one of the plurality of application instances. Connection requests received from the client at the shared communication protocol stack are assigned to the corresponding one of the plurality of application instances if an affinity is defined between the client and the corresponding one of the plurality of application instances. Connection requests received from the client at the shared communication protocol stack are distributed to selected ones of the plurality of application instances if an affinity is not defined between the client and the corresponding one of the plurality of application instances.