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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2012
Owen John Garrett, Ely, GB;
Ian Douglas Mcdowall, Cambridge, GB;
Owen John Garrett, Ely, GB;
Ian Douglas McDowall, Cambridge, GB;
BROCADE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A traffic manager (-) for, and a method of, routing network traffic to a plurality of server computers (-). The traffic manager includes a network interface () and a processor (). The processor is configured to receive network traffic comprising a request () from a client computer (-) via the network interface. The processor is configured to then identify, based on attributes of the request, a server computer that is responsible for servicing the request (a responsible server). The processor is configured to then route the request to the responsible server using the network interface.