| CPC H04L 67/1004 (2013.01) | 20 Claims |

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1. A method comprising:
calculating values of a plurality of application characteristics based on first service load information for a first application, the first service load information including at least one of,
a total number of servers configured to execute the first application,
a total number of sessions for a time period,
a total amount of traffic for the time period,
a maximum number of sessions at a time when peak traffic occurs,
a session time of each session, or
an amount of traffic at a specific time;
evaluating a plurality of application impact scores for each of a plurality of load balancing algorithms, the plurality of application impact scores indicating a degree to which each of the plurality of application characteristics impacts each of the plurality of load balancing algorithms; and
providing a first load balancing algorithm from among the plurality of load balancing algorithms based on the values of the plurality of application characteristics and the plurality of application impact scores.
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