Method and apparatus for automatic load-balancing on multisegment devices
First Claim
1. An automatic load-balancing apparatus for a segmented electronic network, comprising:
- an intelligent port-distribution mechanism that moves ports to new segments to accomplish load-balancing; and
a detector for intelligent automatic determination of when a given load-balancing activation currently would not be beneficial.
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Abstract
Automatic load-balancing provides a decision-making process that includes intelligent automatic detection of when a given load-balancing activation currently would not be beneficial, thereby keeping the user'"'"'s network from being unnecessarily disturbed when no real benefit would be gained; a process to undo a prior load-balancing that can be activated when users have accidentally selected a feature which could substantially change their network configurations; and an extensive intelligent port-distribution algorithm that improves the network load by moving the right ports to new segments.
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77 Claims
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1. An automatic load-balancing apparatus for a segmented electronic network, comprising:
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an intelligent port-distribution mechanism that moves ports to new segments to accomplish load-balancing; and
a detector for intelligent automatic determination of when a given load-balancing activation currently would not be beneficial. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An automatic load-balancing apparatus for a segmented electronic network, comprising:
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an intelligent port-distribution mechanism that moves ports to new segments to accomplish load-balancing; and
an undo mechanism for undoing a prior load-balancing process. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. An automatic load-balancing apparatus for a segmented electronic network, comprising:
an intelligent port-distribution mechanism that moves ports to new segments to accomplish load-balancing. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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35. An automatic load-balancing method for a segmented electronic network, comprising the steps of:
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providing an intelligent port-distribution mechanism that moves ports to new segments to accomplish load-balancing; and
determining when a given load-balancing activation currently would not be beneficial.
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43. An automatic load-balancing method for a segmented electronic network, comprising the steps of:
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providing an intelligent port-distribution mechanism that moves ports to new segments to accomplish load-balancing; and
providing a mechanism for undoing a prior load-balancing process. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54)
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55. An automatic load-balancing method for a segmented electronic network, comprising the steps of:
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providing an intelligent port-distribution mechanism; and
moving ports to new segments to accomplish load-balancing. - View Dependent Claims (56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77)
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69. An intelligent port-distribution method that moves ports to new segments to accomplish load-balancing in a segmented electronic network, comprising the steps of:
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collecting a snapshot of information about all network ports to be considered for redistribution;
sorting said ports in descending order of network resource impact value;
finding the next candidate port which is the next port among said sorted ports that has not already been assigned;
sorting segments in ascending order of current total of network resource impact of all ports placed on them by said mechanism;
finding the first segment with a least current network resource impact total that is fully qualified as the target segment for a candidate port;
checking if said candidate port was previously on the target segment and, if so, assigning said candidate port back to that same segment; and
processing any further ports.
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Specification