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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2019
Applicant:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 67/1001 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/1001 (2022.05);
Abstract
A server selection devices includes: an acquisition unit for acquiring, regarding each of a plurality of servers having the same content, a list of quality information corresponding to communication environment information regarding a source of request for download of the content; and a selection unit for selecting one of the plurality of servers based on the list of the quality information regarding each of the plurality of servers and a cost associated with download of the content. Thus, a destination of a content download request can be selected while giving consideration to not only quality but also cost.