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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2013
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Bahri B. Bali, Cary, NC (US);
Gordan G. Greenlee, Endicott, NY (US);
Richard E. Weingarten, Erie, CO (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/1008 (2013.01); H04L 43/0876 (2013.01); H04L 67/1002 (2013.01); H04L 67/1004 (2013.01); H04L 43/0817 (2013.01); H04L 67/1021 (2013.01); H04L 67/1023 (2013.01); G06F 11/3433 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and system for measuring performance and balancing workload of sites and servers is provided. The method includes measuring performance of one or more servers located at different sites of the network and computing a performance metric for each of the sites or one or more servers at each of the sites. The method further includes providing a bias to the performance metric and routing a request to one of the different sites or one of the one or more servers based on the biased performance metric.