{"id":139,"date":"2015-05-08T11:39:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T17:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fatpipeinc.com\/?p=139"},"modified":"2016-04-28T06:57:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T12:57:34","slug":"fatpipes-patent-for-session-based-outbound-load-balancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatpipeinc.com\/blog\/fatpipes-patent-for-session-based-outbound-load-balancing\/","title":{"rendered":"FatPipe\u2019s Patent for Session Based Outbound Load Balancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At its simplest definition session based outbound load balancing is the ability to make an intelligent decision on which, of multiple, WAN connections on which to start a session.\u00a0\u00a0 In today\u2019s networks where multiple WAN connections are becoming more and more prevalent this doesn\u2019t seem like a revolutionary concept, however 1999 that was not the case.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999 Windows NT was still battling Novell Netware for supremacy in corporate IT, there was still a discussion of whether TCP\/IP or IPX\/SPX would be the network protocol standard, and while most of the world was worrying whether or not computers would stop working on Y2K FatPipe filed for its second patent.<\/p>\n<p>US Patent #6,493,341 was awarded December 10, 2002 and contains 23 technical claims.\u00a0 A simple summary of this patent is a when controller receives a SYN packet destined for an external network, the controller makes a decision based on a least one load balancing criterion as to which WAN router to forward that SYN packet.<\/p>\n<p>The patent is the foundation of all outbound session based <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fatpipeinc.com\/technology\/server-load-balancing.php\" target=\"_blank\">load balancing<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 FatPipe\u2019s technical claims in this patent were recently validated in a Marksman hearing associated with an on-going patent infringement suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At its simplest definition session based outbound load balancing is the ability to make an intelligent decision on which, of multiple, WAN connections on which to start a session.&nbsp;&nbsp; In today&rsquo;s networks where multiple WAN connections are becoming more and more prevalent this doesn&rsquo;t seem like a revolutionary concept, however 1999 that was not the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[43,42,33,40,32,41],"class_list":["post-139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fatpipe","tag-load-balancing","tag-outbound-load-balancing","tag-patent","tag-sd-wan","tag-sdwan","tag-software-defined-wan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatpipeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatpipeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatpipeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatpipeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatpipeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fatpipeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/fatpipeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatpipeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatpipeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatpipeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatpipeinc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}