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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2009
Steering data communications packets among service applications with server selection modulus values
Gary R Shippy, Raleigh, NC (US);
Gary R Shippy, Raleigh, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Steering data communications packets for transparent, bump-in-the-wire data processing among multiple service applications; the service applications executing on servers organized in groups, each server in a server group executing an instance of a same service application, including selecting an instance of each of the service applications to process a packet; identifying a server selection value for each packet as a single integer value that yields server selection modulus values that identify each instance of each of the service applications to process the packet; and steering, by the switches in dependence upon the server selection modulus values, each packet to each instance of each of the service applications to process the packet.