Patent ID: 6112248
Filing Date: 2000-08-29
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
In a first network and a second network, each interconnecting a plurality of data processing devices and interconnected by a subset of the data processing devices, the data processing devices interconnecting the first and second networks acting as routers and being able to execute user processes, a networking method to select routes to balance network traffic among the data processing devices that interconnect the first and second networks, comprising:a first step of obtaining an amount of network traffic flow between the data processing devices of the first and second networks;a second step of obtaining processing load dependent on execution of the user processes of the data processing devices interconnecting the first and second networks and converting the processing load to an amount of network traffic; anda third step of selecting each data processing device route according to the amount of network traffic flow and the converted amount of network traffic, in a way that network traffic flow between the data processing devices interconnecting the first and second networks is distributed among the data processing devices of the second network, so that the network traffic flow among the data processing devices interconnecting the first and second networks is balanced.