Patent ID: 9723111
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: tracking at a first tier server, a plurality of active sessions established between a plurality of clients and a set of second tier servers, wherein the first tier server distributes client messaging across the set of second tier servers; receiving a message at the first tier server; parsing said message at the first tier server, said parsing comprising extracting a first address from a header of the message and a second address contained within a payload of the message, wherein the first address does not relate to an active session of the plurality of active sessions, and the second address relates to an active session of the plurality of active sessions established between a particular second tier server from the set of second tier servers and a client from the plurality of clients; and passing the message from the first tier server to the particular second tier server according to the second address extracted from the message payload.