Patent ID: 9577940
Date: 2017-02-21
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for identity-aware load balancing, the method comprising: identifying, using an attribute communicated with a packet, at an application executing in a data processing system, a sender of the packet, wherein the packet is directed to a set of resources managed by a load balancer; selecting a rule corresponding to the sender; changing, based on the sender, a manner of queuing the packet at the load balancer prior for a load balancing operation using a subset of resources; executing, using a processor and a memory, the rule to identify a characteristic of an algorithm, the identified characteristic being usable in the load balancing operation of the load balancer; communicating the packet and the identified characteristic of the algorithm to the load balancer; causing, responsive to the communicating, the load balancer to select an algorithm for a load balancing operation with the packet such that the selected algorithm includes the identified characteristic of the algorithm; and further causing, responsive to the communicating, the load balancing operation to instruct the subset of resources to use a determined type of cryptography with the packet.