Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic network tunnel endpoint selection
- Patent Title (中): 动态网络隧道端点选择
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Application No.: US11828756Application Date: 2007-07-26
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Publication No.: US07992201B2Publication Date: 2011-08-02
- Inventor: M. Lynn Aldridge , Peter C. Dill , Ivan M. Heninger , John D. Kari , Clifford D. Marano , David M. Urgo
- Applicant: M. Lynn Aldridge , Peter C. Dill , Ivan M. Heninger , John D. Kari , Clifford D. Marano , David M. Urgo
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agent Marcia L. Doubet
- Main IPC: G06F17/00
- IPC: G06F17/00

Abstract:
Dynamically selecting an endpoint for a tunnel into an enterprise computing infrastructure. A client dynamically selects a gateway (which may alternatively be referred to as a boundary device or server) as a tunnel endpoint for connecting over a public network (or, more generally, an untrusted network) into an enterprise computing infrastructure. The selection is made, in preferred embodiments, according to least-cost routing metrics pertaining to paths through the enterprise network from the selected gateway to a destination host. The least-cost routing metrics may be computed using factors such as the proximity of selectable tunnel endpoints to the destination host; stability or redundancy of network resources for this gateway; monetary costs of transmitting data over a path between the selectable tunnel endpoints and destination host; congestion on that path; hop count for that path; and/or latency or transmit time for data on that path.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090031415A1 Dynamic Network Tunnel Endpoint Selection Public/Granted day:2009-01-29
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