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US 8296396
Delivering resources to clients in a distributed computing environment with rendezvous based on load balancing and network conditions
Current assignee: MOUNT SHASTA ACQUISITION LLC
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Patent summary
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US8296396B2 — Patent Overview
Title: Delivering resources to clients in a distributed computing environment with rendezvous based on load balancing and network conditions
Patent number: US8296396B2
Inventors: David A. Farber, Richard E. Greer, Andrew D. Swart, James A. Balter
Original assignee: Level 3 Communications LLC. The listing notes current assignees "may be inaccurate": MOUNT SHASTA ACQUISITION LLC, Digital Island Inc, Sandpiper Cdn LLC.
Key dates (as supplied):
- Priority date: 1998-02-10 (claimed from US09/021,506, which issued as US6185598B1)
- Filing date: 2007-10-31 (application US11/980,686)
- Publication of US20080215755A1: 2008-09-04
- Grant/publication of US8296396B2: 2012-10-23
- Adjusted expiration: 2020-05-26; status listed as "Expired – Fee Related"
Purpose and plain-language scope (per supplied text): The patent concerns delivering resources to clients in a distributed computing environment, where selection of a serving resource (a "rendezvous") is based on load balancing and network conditions. The listed prior-art keywords are: resource, repeater, server, serving, client. Classifications include G06F9/50 (resource allocation considering load), G06F16/957 (browsing optimization, e.g., caching), H04L61/4511 (DNS name-to-address mapping), and multiple H04L67/10xx entries covering replicated-server access, server selection for load balancing (static selection, server workload parameters, network conditions, random/heuristic selection, hash of IP addresses or costs, dynamic adaptation of criteria), and replication/mirroring (H04L67/1095).
The supplied excerpt does not include the claims, written description, drawings, or abstract. It therefore does not establish the specific claimed subject matter, the precise techniques disclosed, the scope of any claim, the substance of any prior-art reference, or the accuracy of the listed assignees, priority date, or legal status (all expressly flagged in the source as assumptions, not legal conclusions). It also does not include the text of the parent patent US6185598B1.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/[US8296396](/patent/US8296396)/en
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