Patent ID: 9077554
Filing Date: 2015-07-07
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for directing communications over a network between a client and at least one content server, the method comprising: receiving a data flow by a server array controller device, the data flow including a resource request specifying an identified content server; identifying the client that is associated with the resource request by the server array controller device; selecting an original content server to handle the resource request, by the server array controller device, when the identified content server is maintaining a maximum number of resource requests allowed between the identified content server and the identified client regardless of a capacity of the identified content server to accommodate one or more additional resource requests; caching connection information that is associated with the original content server and the identified client by the server array controller device; initializing, by the server array controller device, a connection count that is associated with the identified client when the connection information is cached; updating by the server array controller device, the connection count when the original content server is selected from the cached connection information; and directing the data flow between the original content server and the identified client by the server array controller device while data flow between the identified content server and the identified client is maintained by the server array controller device.