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Proxy response apparatus

  • US 20040221207A1
  • Filed: 11/07/2003
  • Published: 11/04/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A proxy response apparatus connected to at least one client and a plurality of servers through a communications network, the proxy response apparatus comprising:

  • a module that monitors occurrence of a failure in one of the plurality of servers that is processing request messages from the at least one client;

    a module that obtains from the communications network packets composing a request message and a corresponding response message that are exchanged between the one of the plurality of servers and the at least one client and stores the packets; and

    a managing module that obtains, when occurrence of a failure in the one of the plurality of servers is detected, a response packet that has not been sent to the at least one client from another of the plurality of servers without having a failure, and sends the response packet to the at least one client.

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