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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 07, 2005
David Karger, Cambridge, MA (US);
Eric Lehman, Cambridge, MA (US);
F. Thomson Leighton, Newtonville, MA (US);
Matthew Levine, Somerville, MA (US);
Daniel Lewin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Rina Panagrahy, Mountain View, CA (US);
David Karger, Cambridge, MA (US);
Eric Lehman, Cambridge, MA (US);
F. Thomson Leighton, Newtonville, MA (US);
Matthew Levine, Somerville, MA (US);
Daniel Lewin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Rina Panagrahy, Mountain View, CA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention relates to a method for requesting data from one of a plurality of actual servers. A virtual network of servers is generated in response to a data request. A first virtual server in the virtual network is chosen randomly, and a path generated from the first virtual server to a root virtual server. At least one virtual server on the path is mapped to a respective one of the plurality of actual servers and data is requested therefrom.