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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 16, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2003
Applicants:
Martin Lund, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Howard Baumer, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Inventors:
Martin Lund, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Howard Baumer, Laguna Hills, CA (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04J 1/16 (2006.01); G08C 15/00 (2006.01); G06F 11/00 (2006.01); G01R 31/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A blade server with an improved method and apparatus for controlling the capacity utilization of the servers is disclosed. Capacity utilization information is obtained from blade servers mounted on a common backplane. The servers provide information concerning capacity utilization using spare link bandwidth without polling or the use of special messages. The blade manager then allocates network traffic based on a utilization algorithm in order to balance the capacity of the server in an efficient manner.