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AssigneeEdgecast Networks, Inc.
InventorsTimothy W. Hartrick, Alexander A. Kazerani, Jayson G. Sakata
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Some embodiments provide a director agent, a server agent, and a specialized hand-off protocol for improving scalability and resource usage within a server farm. A first network connection is established between a client and the director agent in order to receive a content request from the client from which to select a server from a set of servers that is responsible for hosting the requested content. A second network connection is established between the server agent that is associated with the selected server and a protocol stack of the selected server. The first network connection is handed-off to the server agent using the specialized hand-off protocol. The server agent performs network connection state parameter transformations between the two connections to create a network connection through which content can be passed from the selected server to the client without passing through the director.
A method for handing-off a network connection in a server farm comprising at least one director, a set of servers, and a set of transformation agents that is associated with the set of servers, the method comprising:
A method for facilitating hand-off of a network connection in a server farm, the method comprising:
For a server farm comprising at least one director and a set of servers, an agent that operates in association with a particular server of the set of servers to facilitate hand-off of a first network connection from the director to the particular server, the agent comprising:
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