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Load balancing in a distributed computer enterprise environment

  • US 6,581,104 B1
  • Filed: 10/01/1996
  • Issued: 06/17/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/01/1996
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of regulating data distribution in a managed network environment managed by a management server servicing a set of gateways, each of which services a set of endpoints, comprising the steps of:

  • for each subnet of each network path between a gateway and an endpoint, setting a load parameter identifying an amount of network transmission capacity that may be consumed by a particular data distribution over that subnet;

    in response to a method invocation that initiates a data distribution from the gateway, determining an effective transmission load for each subnet affected by the data distribution; and

    if the effective transmission load in a given subnet is greater than the load parameter for the given subnet, altering a characteristic of the data distribution.

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