Adolfo K Rodriguez

US Patent:

20060080273, Apr 13, 2006

Filed:

Oct 12, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/963461

Inventors:

Louis Degenaro - White Plains NY, US
Isabelle Rouvellou - New York NY, US
Jian Yin - Ossining NY, US
Adolfo Rodriguez - Raleigh NC, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707001000

Abstract:

A method for routing an application request to servers hosting the application for improved performance and scalability. Routing of the request is accomplished by allocating each partition of an externally defined set of application associated partitions to at least one of the servers hosting the application; by classifying the application request in consideration of its contents according to external criteria; and by assigning the classified application request to one of the partitions; and finally by routing the classified application request to one of said servers hosting the partition.

US Patent:

20080263223, Oct 23, 2008

Filed:

Jun 26, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/146758

Inventors:

Louis R. Degenaro - White Plains NY, US
Adolfo F. Rodriguez - Raleigh NC, US

Assignee:

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709238

Abstract:

A method, apparatus and programmed storage device for routing data through a communications network. More specifically, a programmable traffic manager is programmed with at least one application level directive and the data is routed through the network to one of the network nodes using the programmable traffic manager, which is programmed in accordance with the application level directive. In a particular example of this invention, a request from a client is routed by the programmable traffic manager to at least one a plurality of servers hosting an application, where the programmable traffic manager is routed in accordance with the application level directive.