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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2012
Seraphin B. Calo, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
William Cornejo, Woodhaven, NY (US);
Thai F. Le, White Plains, NY (US);
Erich M. Nahum, New York, NY (US);
Maroun Touma, Redding, CT (US);
Dinesh C. Verma, New Castle, NY (US);
Seraphin B. Calo, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
William Cornejo, Woodhaven, NY (US);
Thai F. Le, White Plains, NY (US);
Erich M. Nahum, New York, NY (US);
Maroun Touma, Redding, CT (US);
Dinesh C. Verma, New Castle, NY (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Traffic redirection methods include determining a quality-affective factor in a connection between a client and a server in a network; comparing the quality-affective factor to a threshold to determine whether the connection would benefit from a network processing function; reconfiguring the network to redirect the connection to or away from a middlebox that performs the network processing function in accordance with the determination of whether the connection would benefit from the network processing function.