Patent ID: 9407554
Filing Date: 2016-08-02
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method for distributing flows of network traffic across cores of a device having multiple cores, the method comprising: (a) receiving, by a flow distributor of a device having a plurality of cores deployed intermediary between a plurality of clients and a server, a first packet distributed by a receive-side scaler of the device to a first core of the plurality of cores; (b) identifying, by the flow distributor, a first flow of network traffic from the plurality of different flows of network traffic between a plurality of clients and a server to which the first packet belongs, based on tuple information of the first packet; and (c) redistributing, by the flow distributor, the first packet from the first core to a second core of the plurality of cores, responsive to the identification of the first flow and a determination that the second core established a transport layer connection between a client of the plurality of clients and the server for the first flow.