| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and method for managing servers. SOLUTION: This system includes: a plurality of servers for processing messages; at least one client for transmitting messages and receiving messages from the servers; and processor means for maintaining a list indicating whether at least one of the servers is eligible to process messages. Preferably, the servers are adapted to process messages of different types, and the processor means includes means to indicate on the list whether, for each of the different types of messages, at least one of the servers is eligible to process each of the different types of messages. Also, in the preferred embodiment, each of the clients includes means to read the list, before the client transmits a message of a given type to one of the servers, to determine whether at least one of the servers is eligible to process messages of the given type. COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT
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