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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2013
Level 3 Communications, Llc, Broomfield, CO (US);
Laurence R. Lipstone, Calabasas, CA (US);
William Crowder, Camarillo, CA (US);
Andrew Swart, Pennington, NJ (US);
Christopher Newton, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Lewis Robert Varney, Oak Park, CA (US);
Level 3 Communications, LLC, Broomfield, CO (US);
Abstract
An autonomous content delivery network (CDN) is partitioned into multiple virtual CDNs which are organized into a CDN hierarchy. Within the CDN hierarchy, a parent virtual CDN grants at least one privilege to at least one child virtual CDN. The parent virtual CDN has an instance of a CD service of a first type and the child virtual CDN has no instance of the CD service of the first type. The CD service of the first type is selected from: a rendezvous service; a streaming service, a configuration service, a control service, a collector service, and a cache service.