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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 15, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 29, 2005
Cosmin Dini, San Jose, CA (US);
Petre Dini, San Jose, CA (US);
Manuela Popescu, San Jose, CA (US);
Anurag Kahol, Fremont, CA (US);
Cosmin Dini, San Jose, CA (US);
Petre Dini, San Jose, CA (US);
Manuela Popescu, San Jose, CA (US);
Anurag Kahol, Fremont, CA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Resource availability profiles are received, wherein each resource availability profile describes a resource associated with a server. Each resource is assigned a plurality of weights corresponding to a plurality of policies. The weights are determined by, for each of the plurality of the policies, determining a weight for each resource based a given policy and selected information in the resource availability profiles corresponding to the resources. The method further comprises determining a policy from the plurality of the policies corresponding to a given a context associated with a connection request. A first of the load-balanced servers is selected for the connection request based on the weights assigned to the plurality of resources for the policy for the given context.