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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 09, 2016
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Jacobus Van der Merwe, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Zakaria Al-Qudah, Irbid, JO;

Seungjoon Lee, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Michael Rabinovich, Solon, OH (US);

Oliver Spatscheck, Randolph, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 1/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/761 (2013.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/2847 (2013.01); H04L 1/08 (2013.01); H04L 29/08729 (2013.01); H04L 45/16 (2013.01); H04L 47/12 (2013.01); H04L 67/1002 (2013.01); H04L 67/1021 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system for providing content includes a plurality of content delivery servers and a routing control module. Each of the content delivery servers is configured to receive a first request from a client system sent to an anycast IP address for the content, and to provide a first portion of the content to the client system. Each of the content delivery servers is further configured to receive a second request from the client system sent to the anycast IP address for a second portion of the content, and to provide the second portion of the content to the client system. The routing control module is configured to modify the routing of the anycast address from a first content delivery server to a second content delivery server.


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