Appeal No. 2001-1791
Application No. 08/992,038
BACKGROUND
The invention is directed to method and apparatus for performing dynamic load
balancing on multiple network servers. Claim 1 is reproduced below.
1. A method for assigning a plurality of data requests among a plurality of
servers, said method comprising:
determining a load on each of said plurality of servers, wherein said load
on each of said plurality of servers is computed relative to a power rating of each
of said plurality of servers;
assigning each of said data requests to a bucket of a first plurality of
buckets, wherein said first plurality of buckets outnumber said plurality of
servers; and
assigning each bucket of said plurality of buckets containing a data
request to a server of said plurality of servers in response to said load on each of
said plurality of servers.
The examiner relies on the following references:
Rege 5,612,897 Mar. 18, 1997
(filed Mar. 21, 1996)
Li 5,634,125 May 27, 1997
(filed Sep. 2, 1993)
Sitbon et al. (Sitbon) 5,951,634 Sep. 14, 1999
(filed Jun. 28, 1995)
Shashi Shekhar et al. (INTERNET), Load-Balancing in High Performance GIS:
Partitioning Polygonal Maps, available at http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~siva/
Papers/SSD95/top.html (Sep. 13, 2002), pp. node16.html - node20.html and
node28.html (1995).1
1 We will follow the examiner’s convention of referring to the document as “INTERNET.” The
copy of record appears to be pages printed from the noted web address, representative of a paper
published in 1995.
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