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Cisco Technology Inc
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2
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2001 – 2017
telecommunicationssoftwareconsumer_electronics
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20171
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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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