International Business Machines Corporation

Wilfried Bruegmann

Gerd Breiter

Wolfgang Fischer

Hendrik Wagner

Wolfgang Guber

Ulrich Hengstler

Bernhard Schmid

Jan Barthel

Dirk Willuhn

Berthold Gerber

Media Distribution within the Internet is done with the help of Application-Servers, Content-Servers and distributed Edge Servers where the clients are connected to Media Distribution Services. A computer system is provided comprising a client having a Web browser with a media player, a Web Application Server, content Edge Servers ESto ESand a Media Request Broker. After the client has selected a media for streaming, the Media Request Broker makes a determination concerning an appropriate Edge Server to perform the streaming operation. This determination is made based on an extension of the client's http request made by the Edge Server and passed from the Application Server to the Media Request Broker.

Method for selecting an edge server computer

Multi-function document scanner

Growing community of inventors

Altdorf, Germany

Wilfried Bruegmann