Patent ID: 8412817

Claim:
A load balancing server system for balancing a load imposed by requestor requests, the load balancing server system comprising: a network interface configured to interface with a network communication system to: receive the requestor requests from the network communication system; and send server requests for services through the network communication system to service-providing servers; a data processing system configured to: create and maintain server status information indicative of whether each service-providing server is operational; create and maintain server pointer information that identifies the service-providing server to which the next server request should be sent; and receive the requestor requests from the network interface and, in response to each: cause the network interface to send, to the service-providing server identified by the server pointer information, one or more server requests for one or more services related to the requestor request; and increment, in a round-robin manner, the server pointer information to the next service-providing server indicated as being operational by the server status information; and a data storage system configured to store the server status information and the server pointer information.