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Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2012
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kazuhisa Yanagihara, Cupertino, CA (US);

Lionel Gentil, Dublin, CA (US);

Darrin B. Jewell, Woodside, CA (US);

Jason R. Thorpe, San Francisco, CA (US);

Jordan L. Redner, Redwood City, CA (US);

Gregory B. Vaughan, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Gregory Burns, Los Altos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); G06F 15/167 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30902 (2013.01); H04L 67/2842 (2013.01); H04L 61/2514 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed embodiments provide a system that delivers content to an electronic device. The system includes a content provider that obtains a public address of the electronic device from a first request for the content from the electronic device. Next, the content provider uses the public address to identify a local caching server on a local area network (LAN) of the electronic device. Finally, the content provider provides a local address of the local caching server to the electronic device, wherein the local address is used by the electronic device to obtain the content from the local caching server and the LAN without accessing a content delivery network (CDN) outside the LAN.


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