Appeal No. 2004-1560
Application 09/318,722
directed to one of a plurality of customers hosted on the server
cluster. Each of the customers is identified by a domain name,
and each server node is identified by an address on a network
connecting the clients to the server nodes.
Claim 1 is the only independent claim on appeal, and it
reads as follows:
1. A method for operating a server cluster comprising
N server nodes to service client requests, each client request
being directed to one of a plurality of customers hosted on said
server cluster, each customer being identified by a domain name
and each server node being identified by an address on a network
connecting said clients to said server nodes, said method
comprising the steps of:
grouping said customers into N groups, each group being
assigned to a corresponding one of said server nodes;
providing configuration information to a router accessible
from said network, said information defining a correspondence
between each of said customers and one of said server nodes
assigned to one of said groups containing that customer, said
router providing said address of said server node in response to
a message specifying said domain name of said customer, wherein
said grouping of said customers depends on a measurement of the
computational resources required to service said requests to each
of said customers.
The references relied on by the examiner are:
Martin 6,263,368 July 17, 2001
(filed June 19, 1997)
Yu 6,351,775 Feb. 26, 2002
(filed May 30, 1997)
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