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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:
Aug. 25, 2020

Filed:

Oct. 05, 2017
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

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

Seungjoon Lee, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Oliver Spatscheck, Randolph, NJ (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/12 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 25/03 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/1002 (2013.01); H04L 29/12066 (2013.01); H04L 61/1511 (2013.01); H04L 61/6059 (2013.01); H04L 67/101 (2013.01); H04L 67/1008 (2013.01); H04L 67/1017 (2013.01); H04L 67/2842 (2013.01); H04L 67/327 (2013.01); H04L 67/42 (2013.01); H04L 25/03923 (2013.01); H04L 67/288 (2013.01);
Abstract

A content delivery system includes a cache server, a domain name server, and a redirector. The domain name server is configured to receive a request for a cache server address, and provide an IPv6 anycast address. The redirector is configured to receive a content request addressed to the IPv6 anycast address from a client system, receive load information from the cache server, and determine if the cache server is available. The redirector is further configured to forward the content request to the cache server when the cache server is available. The cache server is configured to receive the content request forwarded from the redirectors, send a response to the content request to a client system, the response including an IPv6 unicast address of the cache server as a source address, an IPv6 unicast address of the client system as a destination address, and the IPv6 anycast address as a home address, and provide the content to the requestor.


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