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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2014
Alcatel-lucent Usa, Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Aleksandr Stolyar, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Thomas Woo, Short Hills, NJ (US);
Alcatel Lucent, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
Various embodiments relate to a method, device, and machine-readable storage medium including: receiving a work request for distribution among a plurality of servers; selecting a server of the plurality to receive the work request including: determining whether at least one of the plurality of servers has previously indicated a capacity for additional work, and when at least one has indicated such capacity, selecting the server from a set of servers identified from the plurality as having previously indicated a capacity for additional work; and transmitting the work request to the server. Various embodiments relate to a method, device, and machine-readable storage medium including: maintaining and processing a plurality of requests; determining, based on the plurality of requests, that the server has capacity to process at least one additional request; selecting a load distributor from a plurality of load distributors; and transmitting an indication of capacity to the load distributor.