Patents by Inventor Gavin NING

Gavin NING has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Load balancing
    Patent number: 10834179
    Abstract: There is provided a method of performing load balancing in a communications network comprising a plurality of traffic servers. The method comprises: in a load balancer, receiving a connection request in a communications protocol from a client device and in the load balancer, selecting a traffic server for the requested connection. An identity of the selected traffic server is encoded into a protocol message header. The protocol message header is returned containing the encoded identity of the selected traffic server to the client device. The protocol message header containing the encoded identity of the selected traffic server is included in communications protocol packets sent from the client device to the load balancer. The load balancer, forwards communications protocol packets sent from the client device to the selected traffic server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Kermit Qiu, Gavin Ning, Bin Zeng
  • LOAD BALANCING
    Publication number: 20180115601
    Abstract: There is provided a method of performing load balancing in a communications network comprising a plurality of traffic servers. The method comprises: in a load balancer, receiving a connection request in a communications protocol from a client device and in the load balancer, selecting a traffic server for the requested connection. An identity of the selected traffic server is encoded into a protocol message header. The protocol message header is returned containing the encoded identity of the selected traffic server to the client device. The protocol message header containing the encoded identity of the selected traffic server is included in communications protocol packets sent from the client device to the load balancer. The load balancer, forwards communications protocol packets sent from the client device to the selected traffic server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Applicant: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Kermit QIU, Gavin NING, Bin ZENG