Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

Anil Gopinath

Shrikrishna Karandikar

Juan Alemany

Tom Herbert

Neelkanth Shashikant Natu

Bharat Parekh

Ravi Duvvuri

A method and apparatus for dynamically encoding transactional information into a document over a network. The transactional information may include information about client data, object properties, or network conditions. The document may contain embedded links with embedded objects that can be requested by a client. The embedded links may contain URLs with associated domain names. The transactional information may be inserted into the domain name so that when the object request is subsequently translated by a DNS server, the DNS server can utilize the transactional information to intelligently translate the domain name into an IP address of a network device that can most advantageously serve the request.

Method and apparatus for request routing

A method and apparatus for dynamically encoding transactional information into a document over a network. The transactional information may include information about client data, object properties, or network conditions. The document may contain embedded links with embedded objects that can be requested by a client. The embedded links may contain a URLs with associated domain names. The transactional information may be inserted into the domain name so that when the object request is subsequently translated by a DN.

Method for routing a request over a network to a content source that can most advantageous serve the request

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Anil Gopinath