Patent №
US 7,480,705
Granted
2009-01-20
Filed 2001
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Lab
AI components
1
hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
09912570
The invention is a method and apparatus for facilitating load balancing in a server farm. In accordance with the invention, all of the information about each server necessary for a load balancing program to define and execute a load balancing algorithm is stored at a predetermined URL or each server. The load balancer can query the predefined URL, which returns the necessary information. The load balancer then dynamically configures the load balancing algorithm in accordance with the returned information.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
assignment · 120280216
Assignors
DELIMA, ROBERTO, LANZEN, CRAIG A.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.