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Method and apparatus for communicating among a network of servers

Assignee: Citrix Systems Inc

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Filing: 2001-01-23

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Granted: 2004-10-19

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Expires: 2021-01-23

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Abstract

Abstract The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for communication between servers. In one aspect, the invention relates to a multi-server system including a first server and a second server. The first server has a first plurality of subsystems and a first event bus associated with the first plurality of subsystems, the first event bus including a first event delivery object having a first dispatch table and a first transport mechanism associated with the first event delivery object. The second server has a second plurality of subsystems. One of the first plurality of subsystems communicates with one of the second plurality of subsystems by transmitting an event to the first transport mechanism based on an entry in the first dispatch table. In one embodiment, the first transport mechanism transmits data using TCP/IP. In another embodiment, the first plurality of subsystems includes a transport subsystem. In another embodiment, the transport subsystem is in communication with the second server. In another embodiment, each of the first plurality of subsystems has an associated unique identifier. In another embodiment, one of the first plurality of subsystems creates an event having an identifier unique to the creating subsystem.

Inventors

👤 Thomas D. Freeman
👤 Bradley Jay Pedersen

Bibliographic Details

Application Number —

Jurisdiction US

Data Source google_patents

Last Synchronized 2026-11-09 15:44

CPC Classifications

G; G06; G06F; G06F9/00; G06F9/06; G06F9/46; G06F9/50; G06F9/5005; G06F9/5027; H; H04; H04L; H04L67/00; H04L67/01; H04L67/10; H04L67/1001; H04L67/1004; H04L67/1008; H04L67/101; H04L67/1021; H04L67/1027; H04L67/1034; G06F2209/00; G06F2209/50; G06F2209/508

Claims Analysis

Total Claims: 14

Claim 1

Independent Claim 162 words

In a computer network including a plurality of servers in a server farm, said server farm comprising a logical group of servers administered as a single entity, a method for managing running data generated by the servers, the method comprising the steps of: designating at least two servers in the server farm as collector points for collecting said runtime data of a first type, said runtime data of a first type including at least one of server status information, client session data, licensing information, loading information, and a current workload of each server in the plurality of servers in the server farm; and assigning a first subset of the plurality of the servers in the server farm to transmit said runtime data of the first type to at least one of the collector points and a second subset of the plurality of servers in the server farm to transmit said runtime data of the first type to another of the collector points.

Claim 2

Dependent Claim 162 words

Claim 3

Dependent Claim 49 words

The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of: designing one of the servers in the first subset of servers, other than the server that is designated as a collector point of the first type of data, as a collector point for collecting data of a second type.

Claim 4

Dependent Claim 28 words

The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of designating one of the collector points as a collector point for also collecting data of a second type.

Claim 5

Dependent Claim 30 words

The method of claim 1 further comprising defining at least one of the first subset and the second subset based on geographic locations of the servers in the server farm.

Claim 6

Dependent Claim 24 words

The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of communicating with one of the collector points when requesting data of the first type.

Claim 7

Dependent Claim 24 words

The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of communicating with one of the collector points when storing data of the first type.

Claim 8

Dependent Claim 25 words

The method of claim 1 wherein the designation of at least one of the servers as a collector point is made according to a criterion.

Claim 9

Dependent Claim 21 words

The method of claim 7 wherein the designation is based on a boot order of the servers in the server farm.

Claim 10

Dependent Claim 27 words

The method of claim 1 further comprising determining that one of the collector points is unavailable and selecting another collector point to replace the unavailable collector point.

Claim 11

Dependent Claim 29 words

The method of claim 1 further comprising designating one of the servers in the second subset of servers as a collector point for collecting data of the first type.

Claim 12

Dependent Claim 116 words

In a computer network including a plurality of servers in a server farm, a method for routing runtime data generated by one server in the server farm to every other server in the server farm, the method comprising the steps of: defining a plurality of subsets of servers, each subset including one or more servers; designating one server in each subset as a collector point for said runtime data; transmitting said runtime data from a given server to a first collector point; transmitting the runtime data from the first collector point to a second collector point; and transmitting the runtime data from each collector point to each server in the same subset as that collector point.

Claim 13

Dependent Claim 116 words

Claim 14

Dependent Claim 17 words

The method of claim 11 wherein the first and second collector points are in the same subset.

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