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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2016
Fastly, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
João Diogo Taveira Araújo, Oporto, PT;
Artur Bergman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sean A. Leach, Castle Pines, CO (US);
Fastly, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for a content delivery network that caches content for delivery to end user devices is presented. In one example, a method includes establishing address translations which translate domain names into network addresses usable by the end user devices for reaching content at the cache nodes, with portions of the network addresses comprising stenographic information, and responsive to domain name translation requests from the end user devices, providing ones of the network addresses. The method includes receiving content requests transferred by the end user devices that comprise the network addresses, and performing one or more actions based on the stenographic information in the network addresses.