Patent ID: 11956144
Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 8:
9. A computer program product for network traffic routing and load balancing in an electronic network, wherein the computer program product comprises at least one non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-readable program code portions embodied therein, the computer-readable program code portions which when executed by a processing device are configured to cause the processor to perform the following operations:
identify, by an application layer, at least one website access request by a user account, wherein one website access request of the at least one access request comprises a website identifier;
transmit the at least one website access request to a traffic routing layer;
identify, by the traffic routing layer, a plurality of potential websites associated with the at least one web site access request;
determine, by the traffic routing layer, whether a routing identifier is present for the user account and in response to determining the routing identifier for the user account, pin the user account to a pinned website of the potential websites based on the routing identifier; and
determine, by the traffic routing layer, whether the pinned website comprises an up attribute or down attribute,
wherein, in an instance where the pinned website comprises an up attribute, direct the one website access request to the pinned website associated with the website identifier, or
wherein, in an instance where the pinned website comprises a down attribute, direct the one website access request to a secondary website associated with the website identifier.