Patent ID: 7349979

Claim:
A method of facilitating redirection of data sent from a first processing device to a second processing device, the method comprising: at a third processing device associated with a plurality of traffic handling systems, receiving traffic information from each of the associated traffic handling systems, wherein the traffic information received from each associated traffic handling system specifies which data based on at least a portion of the data should be redirected to the each associated traffic handling system; determining how to redirect data received by the third processing device to a selected traffic handling system based on the received traffic information from each of the associated traffic handling systems; at the third processing device, receiving data from one or more first processing devices that are destined for one or more second processing devices; and at the third processing device, redirecting the received data to selected one or more of the traffic handling systems so that the redirected data are apportioned between the traffic handling systems based on the traffic information from each of the associated traffic handling systems and at least a portion of the received data.