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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 18, 2006
F. Thomson Leighton, Newtonville, MA (US);
Daniel M. Lewin, Charlestown, MA (US);
Ravi Sundaram, Cambridge, MA (US);
Rizwan S. Dhanidina, Boston, MA (US);
Robert Kleinberg, Somerville, MA (US);
Matthew Levine, Somerville, MA (US);
Adrian M. Soviani, Cambridge, MA (US);
Bruce Maggs, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Hariharan Shankar Rahul, Cambridge, MA (US);
Srikanth Thirumalai, Needham, MA (US);
Jay Gunvantrai Parikh, Redwood City, CA (US);
Yoav O. Yerushalmi, La Jolla, CA (US);
F. Thomson Leighton, Newtonville, MA (US);
Daniel M. Lewin, Charlestown, MA (US);
Ravi Sundaram, Cambridge, MA (US);
Rizwan S. Dhanidina, Boston, MA (US);
Robert Kleinberg, Somerville, MA (US);
Matthew Levine, Somerville, MA (US);
Adrian M. Soviani, Cambridge, MA (US);
Bruce Maggs, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Hariharan Shankar Rahul, Cambridge, MA (US);
Srikanth Thirumalai, Needham, MA (US);
Jay Gunvantrai Parikh, Redwood City, CA (US);
Yoav O. Yerushalmi, La Jolla, CA (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention is an intelligent traffic redirection system that does global load balancing. It can be used in any situation where an end-user requires access to a replicated resource. The method directs end-users to the appropriate replica so that the route to the replica is good from a network standpoint and the replica is not overloaded. The technique preferably uses a Domain Name Service (DNS) to provide IP addresses for the appropriate replica. The most common use is to direct traffic to a mirrored web site.