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Cisco Technology Inc

Patents indexed

2

Year range

2001 – 2017

telecommunicationssoftwareconsumer_electronics

Patent Activity by Year

2001
1
2017
1

Key Inventors

Derek W. Bolton1Rajesh Agrawal1Tim Evens1

All Patents

2

Career timeline

2 patents, 2001–2017

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US 6178160·2001

How DNS Servers Route Web Traffic to the Least Busy Server

A method for balancing web traffic by having servers report their current workload to a DNS server, which then directs new users to the fastest available machine.

US 9571603·2017

How Servers Share an IP Address for High Availability

Cisco's 2017 patent describes a system where multiple servers can share a single virtual IP address to ensure an application stays online even if one server fails.

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