US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 19 for "Capacity and performance aware load balancer selection" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,436, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Capacity and performance aware load balancer selection" was invented by Rohan Gandhi (Maharashtra, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for providing performance aware MUX selection for traffic in layer-4 load balancing. The methods and systems assign a subset of VIP ranges (VIP shards) to a subset of MUXes based on capacity of the MUXes. The methods and systems allow sources (end-hosts) in the same datacenter (DC) to select the MUXes for intra-DC traffic. The methods and systems allow th...