# Derek W. Bolton — Patents explained on PatentBrief

Derek W. Bolton has 1 landmark patent explained in plain English on PatentBrief.

- [How DNS Servers Route Web Traffic to the Least Busy Server](https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/6178160/load-balancing-of-client-connections-across-a-network-using-server-based-algorithms) — granted 2001
  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.

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