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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2009
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 Panagrahy, 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 Panagrahy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Massachusetts Intitute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a method and apparatus for distributing a request to one of a plurality of resources. A request is mapped to a location in circular mapping space using a hash function. Each of the plurality of resources is mapped to a respective location or locations in the circular mapping space. The request is allocated to one of the resources based on the given request location and the resource location in the circular mapping space.