Patent ID: 9379997
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising: transmitting, with one or more configured computing devices, one or more initial client service requests to a communication processing component; receiving, with the one or more configured computing devices and from each of multiple servers that are distinct and separate from the communication processing component, a respective service response provided in response to one of the initial client service request, each respective service response including an identifier associated with a respective server and a connection lease that indicates a duration in which subsequent client service requests may bypass the communication processing component and be sent directly to the respective server; selecting, by the one or more configured computing devices and based at least in part on the multiple received service responses, a first of the servers to use with one or more subsequent client service requests; transmitting the one or more subsequent client service requests directly to the first server in accordance with the connection lease included in the service response received from the first server; and after the transmitting of the one or more subsequent client service requests directly to the first server, and during the duration of the connection lease for the first server: