Patent ID: 9197715
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An information processing apparatus, comprising: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: determine an identifier that is scheduled to be added to an access request that is to be received from a client apparatus next, based on a receiving order of the access request, the identifier being a counter value indicating the receiving order of the access request, specify an information processing apparatus that processes the access request to which the determined identifier is to be added from among a plurality of information processing apparatuses in a distribution-type network, store, in the memory, information specifying the specified information processing apparatus and the identifier that is scheduled to be added, which are associated with each other, add the determined identifier to the received access request when the processor receives the access request from the client apparatus, extract information specifying the information processing apparatus corresponding to the determined identifier from the memory, and transmit the information specifying the information processing apparatus to the client apparatus.