LOAD BALANCING SECURE FTP CONNECTIONS AMONG MULTIPLE FTP SERVERS
First Claim
1. A system for load balancing multiple file transfer protocol (FTP) servers to service FTP requests, the system, comprising:
- a load balancing agent;
multiple FTP servers coupled to the load balancing agent, which identifies an FTP server from the multiple FTP servers to which to send a first signal of an FTP request;
wherein, in response to the first signal, the FTP server, allocates a port within a port range and identifies the port as being available for use in connecting with the second signal of the FTP request;
wherein, the FTP servers provide access to a cloud-based collaboration service.
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Abstract
System and method for load balancing multiple file transfer protocol (FTP) servers to service secure FTP sessions having encrypted signals are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the system include multiple FTP servers coupled to a load balancing agent. Each of the multiple FTP servers is associated with a unique port range and the load balancer receives an encrypted data signal in a secure FTP session on a given port and uses a port range within which the given port falls to identify which of the multiple FTP servers a corresponding control signal of the secure FTP session was previously sent.
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35 Claims
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1. A system for load balancing multiple file transfer protocol (FTP) servers to service FTP requests, the system, comprising:
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a load balancing agent; multiple FTP servers coupled to the load balancing agent, which identifies an FTP server from the multiple FTP servers to which to send a first signal of an FTP request; wherein, in response to the first signal, the FTP server, allocates a port within a port range and identifies the port as being available for use in connecting with the second signal of the FTP request; wherein, the FTP servers provide access to a cloud-based collaboration service. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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29. A method for load balancing multiple file transfer protocol (FTP) servers to service FTP requests, the method, comprising:
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identifying an FTP server from multiple FTP servers to which to send a first signal of an FTP request; wherein, in response to the first signal, the a port within a port range is allocated and identified as being available for use in connecting with a second signal of the FTP request; wherein, the FTP servers provide access to a cloud-based collaboration environment. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35)
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