Patent ID: 7945611
Filing Date: 2011-05-17
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. At a computer system including a load balancing service, a method for arbitrating an appropriate back-end server to receive channels of a client session, the method comprising: an act of receiving an indication of a first arbitration mechanism for a first back-end server, the first back-end server indicated by a first front-end server as the appropriate back-end server to receive channels of the client session; an act of receiving an indication of a second different arbitration mechanism for a second back-end server, the second back-end server indicated by a second front-end server as the appropriate back-end server to receive channels of the client session; an act of comparing an arbitration order value representing the first arbitration mechanism to an arbitration order value representing the second different arbitration mechanism to determine whether the first arbitration mechanism or the second different arbitration mechanism indicates an a back-end server that is more appropriate for receiving channels of the client session relative to other back-end servers; and an act of selecting the first back-end server to receive channels of the client session based on the results of the comparison determining that the first arbitration mechanism is more appropriate for receiving channels of the client session relative to other arbitration mechanisms.