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Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015

Filed:

Dec. 17, 2012
Applicant:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Gokhan Uluderya, Redmond, WA (US);

Tyler Furtwangler, Seattle, WA (US);

Bijul Soni, Redmond, WA (US);

Eric Fox, Seattle, WA (US);

Sanjay Rama, Redmond, WA (US);

Kfir Ami-ad, Redmond, WA (US);

Roshane Silva, Seattle, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/00 (2013.01); H04L 67/1008 (2013.01); H04L 67/327 (2013.01);
Abstract

Server health and client information are exchanged through headers for request management. Headers in standardized or proprietary protocol communication between servers and a request management module and/or clients and the request management module may be used to exchange server health and client information. The exchanged server health and/or client information may be employed in throttling, routing, and/or load balancing the incoming requests. Rules specified by the client through the header exchange may also be used for throttling, routing, and/or load balancing decisions.


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