Comment Re:Patent text, review (Score 1) 143
Some load balancing implementations have all servers in the cluster take turns receiving requests, and passing off as needed, or use a round-robin DNS lookup, where requests come into a single DNS server (NOT a WEB SERVER, which the patent specifically states), and then pass out requests to the various web servers in the pool, without regard to current server load.
As far point this point of your well written post, the web server implementation (vs router or DNS implementation) was commercially available from Tandem Computers in 1995. It looks like InfoSpinner is going to spin out on this one...
One possible infringer: Microsoft, which has built in new clustering technology in Windows 2000.
Microsoft is probably in the clear because "its" clustering technology(which the slick rags that rely on MSFT advertising will hail as another Gates technological innovation and break through...) is actually licensed from Tandem.
As far point this point of your well written post, the web server implementation (vs router or DNS implementation) was commercially available from Tandem Computers in 1995. It looks like InfoSpinner is going to spin out on this one...
One possible infringer: Microsoft, which has built in new clustering technology in Windows 2000.
Microsoft is probably in the clear because "its" clustering technology(which the slick rags that rely on MSFT advertising will hail as another Gates technological innovation and break through...) is actually licensed from Tandem.
