Technique for content delivery over the internet
US6959333B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | May 8, 2001 |
| Grant date | Oct 25, 2005 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 28, 2023 |
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- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/1012
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A content delivery system for a content provider that comprises at least two content delivery servers for delivering contents, a preference database for storing an estimated distance between each of the at least two content delivery servers and a client, and a content provider domain name server for mapping the name of the content provider to the at least two content delivery servers and selecting one of the content delivery servers to deliver the content, that has a shortest estimated distance to the client in the preference database.
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