Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Network performance monitoring in a content delivery system
- Patent Title (中): 内容传送系统中的网络性能监控
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Application No.: US12776453Application Date: 2010-05-10
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Publication No.: US08392611B2Publication Date: 2013-03-05
- Inventor: F. Thomson Leighton , Rizwan S. Dhanidina , Robert D. Kleinberg , Matthew Levine , Daniel M. Lewin , Andrew D. Parker , Adrian Soviani , Ravi Sundaram
- Applicant: F. Thomson Leighton , Rizwan S. Dhanidina , Robert D. Kleinberg , Matthew Levine , Daniel M. Lewin , Andrew D. Parker , Adrian Soviani , Ravi Sundaram
- Applicant Address: US MA Cambridge
- Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Cambridge
- Agent David H. Judson
- Main IPC: G06F15/173
- IPC: G06F15/173

Abstract:
A method for Internet content delivery in a content delivery network established at network locations, the content delivery network comprising a plurality of content servers for serving content resources. The plurality of content servers includes a plurality of subsets of content servers, each subject being located at one of a plurality of Internet data centers. For each Internet Protocol (IP) address block from which requests for content resources are expected to be received, the method generates a candidate list of Internet data centers to be used to service the requests for content resources. For the IP address block, the method selects at least one of the Internet data centers from the candidate list to be used to service the requests for content resources. The selected Internet data center for the IP address block is written into a network map. The selecting step is carried out concurrently for each IP address block from which requests for content resources are expected to be received such that the network map comprises the selected Internet data center for each IP address block. The network map is then provided to a domain name service (DNS) associated with the content delivery network. In response to a DNS query received at the domain name service associated with the content delivery network, the network map is used to identify one of the Internet data centers from the candidate list to be used to service a request for a content resource.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100217801A1 Network performance monitoring in a content delivery system Public/Granted day:2010-08-26
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