Obtaining a family of functions given a property

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Suppose a function family is given by the following defining identity:

$$f\left(u, \frac{rs}{r+s}\right) = \frac{f(u,r)f(u,s)}{f(u,r) + f(u,s)} $$

for all $u, r, s$ in the real domain, or the complex domain

What can be said about the functions $f$, and how do we obtain some nontrivial representatives of the family if non-empty?

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Hint.

Consider $$g \left( \frac{1}{x} \right)=\frac{1}{f(x)},$$ you will get the linearity property for it:

$$g(x+y)=g(x)+g(y)$$

This is equivalent to the functional equation in the OP.

The $u$ dependence can be arbitrary.