Patent ID: 9052955
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: G06F,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: pushing, by a hardware network element, a VIP uniform resource locator (URL) Configuration of applications hosted at the first datacenter to a first global site selector (GSS) located at the first datacenter, wherein the VIP URL Configuration is propagated from the first GSS to a plurality of other GSS in a cluster spanning a plurality of datacenters; receiving, at the hardware network element, a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request from a client for an application, which is not available at the first datacenter; querying the first GSS configured to identify a second datacenter at which the application is available, wherein the second datacenter is identified by a selected virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) address; forwarding the HTTP request to the selected VIP address; and responding to the client with an HTTP response received from the selected VIP address.