ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,621, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to VMware LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Transparent load balancing" was invented by Srinivasa Srikanth Podila (Bangalore, India), Hiral Mehta (Bangalore, India) and Varun Lakkur Ambaji Rao (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method of performing load balancing on client traffic sent to a cluster of servers that are associated with a common network address (e.g., for a VIP address associated with a service provided by the cluster of servers). The method assigns a cluster of two or more transparent load balancers to the common network address associated with the s...