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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2020
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2018
Level 3 Communications, Llc, Broomfield, CO (US);
Laurence R. Lipstone, Calabasas, CA (US);
William Crowder, Camarillo, CA (US);
Jeffrey G. Koller, Oxnard, CA (US);
David Fullagar, Boulder, CO (US);
Maksim Yevmenkin, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Christopher Newton, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Level 3 Communications, LLC, Broomfield, CO (US);
Abstract
A content delivery network (CDN) includes a plurality of CDN components including at least one CDN rendezvous mechanism and at least one control core. The CDN components are controlled by control core data from the at least one control core. Some CDN components obtain CDN resources including control core data from at least some other CDN components. The CDN components use the CDN rendezvous mechanism to select one or more CDN components from which to obtain CDN resources.