US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on May 10 for "Monitoring for Replica Placement and Request Distribution" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 11 -- United States Patent no. 7,941,556, issued on May 10, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Reno, Nev.).

"Monitoring for Replica Placement and Request Distribution" was invented by Claudia Canali (Modena, Italy), Alexandre Gerber (Madison, N.

J.), Stephen Fisher (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael Rabinovich (Solon, Ohio), Oliver Spatscheck (Randolph, N.

J.) and Zhen Xiao (Randolph, N.

J.).

According to the abstract released by the U.

S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform that may be used to dynamically reallocate resources to support an Internet application is disclosed. In an embodiment, the platform may include two layers of distribution, one at the domain name server (DNS) layer and one at an Internet data center layer. The platform may include a dynamic resource allocation manager that causes instances of applications to be initiated in Internet data centers in response to dynamic conditions and characteristics of the application. A monitoring system module may be provided to keep the dynamic resource allocation manager informed as the health and utilization of instances of the application."

The patent was filed on Nov. 30, 2005, under Application No. 11/290,137.

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