ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,342, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc..
"Layer 4 load aware load balancing" was invented by Zhiyuan Yao (Paris), Yoann Louis Simon Desmouceaux (Paris), Pierre Pfister (Roquefort-les-Pins, France) and William Mark Townsley (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Load aware load balancing may be provided. Flow duration data associated with a plurality of flows associated with a plurality of servers may be obtained. Then a plurality of queue lengths respectively associated with the plurality of servers may be obtained. Next, a Shortest Expected Delay (SED) score may be determined for each of the plurality ...