Patent ID: 9723093
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for distributing, among networked servers that each provide a service for clients, a request from a client to register for the service, the client being internal or external to the server network, the method comprising: providing a client-to-server assignment data structure specifying assignments of each client to one of the servers as a home server for the client; receiving by a receiving server a request sent from a requesting client to register for the service; before registering the requesting client, identifying by the receiving server a home server of the requesting client from the client-to-server assignment data structure; determining whether the receiving server is the identified home server; after determining that the receiving server is the identified home server, registering by the receiving server the requesting client, such that the receiving server may provide the service to the registered client; and after determining that the receiving server is not the identified home server,