Patent ID: 7401159

Claim:
A method for routing traffic in a data network, the data network including a sub-network of client servers which include information corresponding to information stored on at least one host server, the method comprising: receiving, at a first device, a first packet, the first packet having an associated source device and an associated destination device; selecting a first portion of the client servers for forwarding information relating to the first packet, wherein the first portion includes two or more client servers; forwarding information relating to the first packet from the first device to the first portion of the client servers; determining a specific trigger time reference value for causing each of the first portion of client servers to transmit a respective spoofed response to the first packet at a time corresponding to the trigger time reference value; and transmitting said trigger time reference value to each of the first portion of client servers along with the forwarded first packet information to thereby cause each of the first portion of client servers to transmit a respective response to the source device at substantially the same time.