Appeal 2007-1117
Application 09/825,495
one of at least two application service provider servers that provide two
different types of application service (Figure 1; Specification 2 and 22).
Claim 1 is representative of the claims on appeal, and it reads as
follows:
1. A network configured to dynamically and intelligently route
requests for services provided by service provider servers, comprising:
a computing device utilizing an Internet provided (ISP) to
communicate over the network;
an association of at least two application service provider servers
coupled with said network, said association comprising:
a first application service provider for providing a first type of
application service; and
a second application service provider for providing a second type of
application service, wherein said first type of application service is different
than said second type of application service;
an ingress server configured to receive a request for an application
service from the computing device over an established network connection;
service routing server utilizing a predetermined application criteria to
intelligently select one of said at least two application service provider
servers based on said application request received from said computing
device, and intelligently routing the computing device application service
request over the network to the selected application service provider server
to perform the requested application service; and
an application service provider server register configured to maintain
current application service provider server information for at least one of
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