Patent 10911295 was granted and assigned to NEC on February, 2021 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In a cluster system having two server apparatuses that operate as an in-use type or a standby type, a first server apparatus is provided with: a heartbeat transmission/reception part that transmits and receives heartbeat packets to and from a corresponding second server apparatus; and a corresponding node monitoring part that adjusts a timeout period for transitioning operation of the first server apparatus from a standby type to an in-use type, according to the reception state of the heartbeat packets.