Patent ID: 8782206

Claim:
A method for identifying at least one target application server from application servers of a server farm to allocate computer-aided medical task flows, each of the application servers having a load calculation agent installed therein, the method comprising: configuring, during a configuration phase, request conditions and load information of the application servers via a user interface of a load balancing service installed on at least one of the application servers, the request conditions indicating, via a plurality of linked logical operations, hardware required by an associated application server to perform the computer-aided medical task flow and the load information indicating what usage parameters are recordable by the associated application server; and during a load balancing phase after the configuration phase, recording the computer-aided medical task flow, recording, at available application servers using the load calculation agent installed therein, the load information of a respective one of the available application servers by accumulating partial load information from different program extensions installed on the respective one of the available application servers, the program extension configured to, analyze the request conditions required by the computer-aided medical task flow, and return a complex response to the load calculation agent based on the analysis, identifying, using the recorded load information and configurable load balancing criteria that prioritizes the application servers, at least one target application server from the application servers of the server farm that fulfills the request conditions of the recorded computer-aided medical task flow, and outputting a load result list of the identified target application servers, the list quantifying the identified target application servers based on an extent to which the identified target application servers fulfill the request conditions configured during the configuration phase.