Patent ID: 7251496

Claim:
In a Home Agent supporting Mobile IP, a method comprising: receiving a registration request from each of a plurality of Mobile Nodes, the registration request specifying a care-of address; establishing a binding between each of the plurality of Mobile Nodes and the associated care-of address, each of the plurality of Mobile Nodes being associated with one another as a group of servers among which server requests are to be distributed, wherein each of the plurality of Mobile Nodes is a server and wherein each of the plurality of Mobile Nodes has the same Home Address, thereby associating each of the group of servers with one another, wherein the plurality of Mobile Nodes have the same Home Agent; and creating a tunnel between the Home Agent and the care-of address for each of the plurality of Mobile Nodes, thereby enabling a server request to be distributed by the Home Agent to one of the plurality of Mobile Nodes via the associated tunnel.