Patent ID: 8335943
Filing Date: 2012-12-18
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for maintaining session states across a plurality of multi-core devices intermediary to a plurality of clients and one or more servers, the method comprising: (a) obtaining, by a first failover module of a first multi-core device intermediary to a plurality of clients and one or more servers, from each core of the first multi-core device, a state of each session between a client and a server maintained by that core; (b) receiving, by a second failover module of a second multi-core device intermediary to the plurality of clients and the one or more servers, from the first failover module the state of each session for each of the cores of the first-multi-core device; and (c) assigning, by the second failover module, to each core of the second multi-core device, (i) one or more sessions of one or more cores of the first multi-core device, and (ii) corresponding session states.