Patent ID: 8539075
Filing Date: 2013-09-17
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of processing requests in a network, comprising: measuring performance of one or more servers located at different sites of the network; computing a load balancing performance metric for each of the sites or the one or more servers at each of the sites; providing a bias to the load balancing performance metric; and routing a request to one of the different sites or one of the one or more servers based on the biased load balancing performance metric to balance a workload among the one or more servers, wherein the bias is a multiplier that accentuates a load issue by proactively taking into consideration overall architecture of the network in order to adjust the workload among the one or more servers prior to any capacity problems; the load balancing performance metric is a load value; and the load value is calculated by: