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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2015
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Mike Wexler, Mountain View, CA (US);
Robert Ames, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ian Flint, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yahoo Holdings, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, in a hierarchy of nodes, a master node having two or more child nodes obtains from the two or more child nodes two or more sets of data samples or summaries associated therewith, the two or more sets of data samples being representative of traffic processed via two or more sets of servers corresponding to the two or more child nodes, wherein a size of each of the two or more sets of data samples is proportional to an allocation of traffic among the two or more sets of servers corresponding to the two or more child nodes. Each of the two or more sets of data samples is obtained from a different one of the two or more child nodes and represents traffic processed by a corresponding one of the two or more sets of servers. The master node combines the two or more sets of data samples or summaries associated therewith such that a combined set of data is generated. The master node ascertains a numerical value from the combined set of data.