Data storage and access employing clustering
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1. A scalable data delivery system including a plurality of application servers, presentation servers and data servers, comprising:
- a session manager directing users accessing the system to a subset of said presentation servers, application servers and data servers based on a characteristic of said users;
an application manager coupling applications from the application servers to users, said act of coupling being responsive to user requests received via said presentation servers associated with the characteristic of said users; and
a data manager coupling applications from the application servers to data in the data servers based on the characteristic of said users and a data type.
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Abstract
A data management system operable between a set of presentation layer servers, a set of application servers and a set of data servers. The data management system includes: a session manager routing users to at least one of a plurality of presentation layer servers; an application manager coupling business applications provided by the business application servers responsive to user interaction with the presentation servers; and a data manager coupling business applications to at least one of a plurality of data sets.
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32 Claims
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1. A scalable data delivery system including a plurality of application servers, presentation servers and data servers, comprising:
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a session manager directing users accessing the system to a subset of said presentation servers, application servers and data servers based on a characteristic of said users; an application manager coupling applications from the application servers to users, said act of coupling being responsive to user requests received via said presentation servers associated with the characteristic of said users; and a data manager coupling applications from the application servers to data in the data servers based on the characteristic of said users and a data type. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A data management system operable between a set of presentation layer servers, a set of application servers and a set of data servers, comprising:
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a session manager routing users to at least one set of a plurality of presentation layer servers based on a characteristic of said users; an application manager coupling business applications provided by the business application servers with applications and users responsive to user interaction with the presentation servers based on said characteristic of said users; and a data manager coupling business applications to at least one of a plurality of data sets based on the characteristic of said users and a data type. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. An Internet application and data delivery system, comprising:
an administrator data center including; a client display cluster, an administrative server cluster coupled to the client display cluster and including a user routing facility, said facility including a manager routing users based on a characteristic of users, an application server cluster, and a data server cluster, said cluster including a data manager routing users based on the characteristic and a data type; and a customer data center accessible via the client display cluster responsive to the administrative server cluster, including; an application server cluster, a presentation server cluster, and a data server cluster. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17)
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18. A method for scaling data and processing power, comprising:
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(a) providing business applications and application data accessible to users via first servers where additional second servers may be added to the system while said first servers are in use; (b) segregating the business applications into application sets, and data into data sets, based on at least one characteristic of the application data; (c) receiving requests from users via said business applications for access to data in one of said data sets; (d) directing said user requests to an appropriate application set based on a characteristic of the user associating said user with the application set; and (e) directing applications in said appropriate application set to at least one data set based on the characteristic of the user and a data type. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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28. An application delivery system, comprising:
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a user display server; a set of user presentation servers segregated to provide presentation services to users based on a characteristic of said user; a set of application servers, the application servers providing applications to users, said applications are provided based on a user characteristic and a data type characteristic received via said presentation servers; and a set of data servers associated with sub-sets of the application servers, the sub-sets organized by said data type characteristics.
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29. A method for responding to a user request for a business application in a web page, comprising:
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displaying, responsive to the user request, a business application access page output from a presentation server cluster, the access page providing a user with access to a business application; providing one of a plurality of business application programs to a user device responsive to the request from the user, the program being provided from one of a plurality of business application servers partitioned based on a characteristic of user and data used by the business applications; and providing data to the business application program on the user device from one of a plurality of data application servers partitioned based on said user and data characteristic. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32)
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