Patent ID: 9191336
Filing Date: 2015-11-17
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. In a processing system comprising a first processing center and one or more second processing centers remote from the first processing center, each of the second processing centers comprising at least one associated second processing center processor, a method of assigning a processing request, comprising: determining, at a traffic distribution controller of the first processing center, a capacity of each of the second processing centers to process the processing request, including determining a current capacity of each second processing center processor to process the processing request; receiving the processing request from a client in the first processing center; and assigning the processing request to at least one second processing center processor according to the determined current capacity of the at least one of the second processing center processor, comprising; wherein a global address of the assigned at least one second processing center processor is transmitted from the second processing center associated with the assigned at least one second processing center processor to the client, and the at least one second processing center processor receives the processing request from the client at the global address of the at least one second processing center processor.