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DYNAMIC LOAD REDISTRIBUTION AMONG DISTRIBUTED SERVERS

  • US 20120030749A1
  • Filed: 07/30/2010
  • Published: 02/02/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/30/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. At a computer system including a processor and a memory, in a computer networking environment including a plurality of computing systems, a computer-implemented method for redistributing authentication requests among a plurality of authentication servers, the method comprising:

  • an act of instantiating a secure channel management service configured to manage one or more secure channel connections, wherein the secure channel management service is configured to receive state inputs from one or more currently deployed authentication proxy servers;

    an act of receiving at least one state input from at least one of the currently deployed authentication proxy servers, the authentication proxy servers being configured to queue authentication requests for transmission to one or more authentication servers;

    an act of determining that, based on the received state input, one or more of the secure channels are to be remapped to a different authentication proxy server; and

    an act of remapping the determined one or more secure channels to distribute future authentication requests among the plurality of authentication proxy servers.

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