Patent ID: 8793698
Filing Date: 2014-07-29
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A hardware logic system for directing incoming processing data units, with such units referred to as packets, to instances of a set of locally hosted application programs referred to as the applications, the system including: at a second-stage load balancer specific to the processing system to which the packet was directed to by the inter-processing-system load balancer, a hardware logic subsystem for examining whether the packet has an instance of its destination application identified, and if so, directing the packet toward a processing resource associated with such an identified destination instance, while otherwise, determining an appropriate instance of said destination application among the group of instances of that application hosted on the processing system, at least in part based on said indication of which instances of said destination application are accepting NIS packets, and directing the packet toward a processing resource associated with such determined instance of that application.