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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 19, 2010
Filed:
May. 06, 2008
John Alan Bivens, Ossining, NY (US);
Yuksel Gunal, New York, NY (US);
Peter Bergersen Yocom, LaGrangeville, NY (US);
John Alan Bivens, Ossining, NY (US);
Yuksel Gunal, New York, NY (US);
Peter Bergersen Yocom, LaGrangeville, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In datacenter environments, many copies of servicing components (application servers, http servers, etc) are used to handle larger loads. In these cases, incoming service requests typically go to a load balancer to be directed to the appropriate servicing component. Modern advances in technology, like the Server/Application State Protocol, have allowed load balancers to receive recommendations in the form of numerical weights to describe the best distribution for the incoming requests. The present invention provides a method for computing path oriented statistics that enable load balancing algorithms to transparently integrate downstream performance and resource usage statistics into load balancing weights.