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AssigneeWest Publishing Company
InventorsAlfred R. Boll, David G. Finke, Charles S. Koehn
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The present invention provides a method of processing transaction requests from client applications within a computer network having a plurality of client servers. Each client server has a work share and a set of attributes that including a name, an address and a list of services for fulfilling transaction requests. Each transaction request identifies attributes necessary for fulfilling the request. The method entails identifying a set of client servers having the necessary attributes and defining a work distribution function. The work distribution function, which distributes transaction requests, randomly selects a client server from the set of client servers, according to work shares of the client servers.
A method of processing a transaction request from a client application within a computer network having a plurality of client servers, each client server having a set of attributes including identification data and capabilities available for fulfilling transaction requests, the transaction request identifying attributes necessary to fulfill the request and attributes ranked according to desirability for fulfilling the request, the method comprising:
A communications interface for a computer network having a client application and a plurality of client servers, each client server having a work share and a set of attributes including identification data and capabilities available for fulfilling transaction requests, the communications interface comprising:
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