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Methods and devices for selecting internet servers

Patent 7177923 Issued on February 13, 2007. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject March 13, 2021. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventor

Application

No. 09804248 filed on 03/13/2001

US Classes:

709/223, COMPUTER NETWORK MANAGING709/224, Computer network monitoring718/105, Load balancing706/8, Fuzzy inference processing706/47, Ruled-based reasoning system327/355, Combining of plural signals706/20, Classification or recognition706/46, Knowledge representation and reasoning technique379/112.06, Generalized statistics about telephone network usage370/230Control of data admission to the network

Examiners

Primary: Nguyen-Ba, Antony

International Classes

G06F 15/173
G06F 9/46
G06F 15/18

Abstract

Novel load-balancing methods and devices direct Internet traffic to a “next available” communications server within a group of server based on a set of fuzzy logic rules. The use of fuzzy logic rules allows a next available server to be quickly and accurately selected.

Other References

  • Sodan et al. “Hierarchial Fuzzy Configuration of Implementation Strategies”. Proceedings of the 1999 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 1999, pp. 250-259.
  • Andreas Pitsillides et al., Intelligent QoS Routing, Nov. 2000, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, p. 7 of 13.
  • Bin Qui, Using a Fuzzy Logic Based Sheduling Algorithm to Provide Smart and Efficient Load-Balancing for Clustered “virtual”Internet Servers, Feb. 2001, CSSE Monash Honours Research Projects 2001, p. 25 of 29.
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