H04L 67/1004
Server selection for load balancing
H04L67/1004 (Server selection for load balancing) appears on 7,558 US grants and 8,129 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 7,558
- Published applications
- 8,129
- Assignees
- 1,634
- Inventors
- 14,320
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 1994 | 1 | 0 |
| 1995 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 |
| 1998 | 3 | 0 |
| 1999 | 23 | 0 |
| 2000 | 40 | 0 |
| 2001 | 53 | 42 |
| 2002 | 59 | 223 |
| 2003 | 53 | 222 |
| 2004 | 76 | 165 |
| 2005 | 85 | 179 |
| 2006 | 156 | 198 |
| 2007 | 132 | 206 |
| 2008 | 132 | 258 |
| 2009 | 183 | 194 |
| 2010 | 214 | 195 |
| 2011 | 187 | 197 |
| 2012 | 241 | 243 |
| 2013 | 224 | 284 |
| 2014 | 303 | 358 |
| 2015 | 317 | 447 |
| 2016 | 394 | 454 |
| 2017 | 467 | 504 |
| 2018 | 456 | 560 |
| 2019 | 570 | 548 |
| 2020 | 629 | 526 |
| 2021 | 626 | 493 |
| 2022 | 539 | 476 |
| 2023 | 495 | 399 |
| 2024 | 424 | 341 |
| 2025 | 319 | 259 |
| 2026 | 155 | 158 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
- H04L 67/1008Based on parameters of servers3,813
- H04L 67/101Based on network conditions1,439
- H04L 67/1023Based on a hash applied to ip addresses or costs1,280
- H04L 67/1021Based on client or server locations1,153
- H04L 67/1012Based on compliance of requirements or conditions with available server resources1,058
- H04L 67/1014Based on the content of a request1,002
- H04L 67/1017Based on a round robin mechanism411
- H04L 67/1025Dynamic adaptation of the criteria on which the server selection is based265
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Recent patents
- Filtered advertisements of secondary servers6 Oct 2026US 12,756,632 B2CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
- Executable objects in a distributed storage system6 Oct 2026US 12,756,754 B2NetApp, Inc.
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- Techniques for automating resilience testing of clusters in a distributed computing environment29 Sep 2026US 12,750,421 B2Netflix, Inc.
- Allocation of server resources in remote-access computing environments29 Sep 2026US 12,750,422 B2Parallels International GmbH
- System and method for url fetching retry mechanism8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310740 A1Bright Data Ltd.
- Pre-scheduled allocation of network resources with accurate runtime estimation of communication time8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313019 A1Xilinx, Inc.
- Client Communication Resiliency1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303442 A1Bank of America Corporation
- System and Method for Improving Content Fetching by Selecting Tunnel Devices1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303681 A1Bright Data Ltd.
- Server Placement in Interconnected System Environments using Digital Twins1 Oct 2026US 2026/0303682 A1International Business Machines Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- World-wide-web server with delayed resource-binding for resource-based load balancing on a distributed resource multi-node network1,664US 5,774,660 AResonate Inc. · 1998
- Method and system for managing distributed content and related metadata1,644US 7,272,613 B2Intel Corporation · 2007
- System and method for delivery of video data over a computer network1,423US 5,956,716 AIntervu, Inc. · 1999
- System for on-line service in which gateway computer uses service map which includes loading condition of servers broadcasted by application servers for load balancing1,192US 5,774,668 AMicrosoft Corporation · 1998
- Global hosting system1,155US 6,108,703 AMassachusetts Institute of Technology · 2000