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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2009
Eric Sven-johan Swildens, Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard David Day, Moutain View, CA (US);
Ajit K. Gupta, Fremont, CA (US);
Eric Sven-Johan Swildens, Mountain View, CA (US);
Richard David Day, Moutain View, CA (US);
Ajit K. Gupta, Fremont, CA (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A content delivery and global traffic management network system provides a plurality of caching servers connected to a network. The caching servers host customer content that can be cached and stored, and respond to requests for Web content from clients. If the requested content does not exist in memory or on disk, it generates a request to an origin site to obtain the content. A DNS Server load balances network requests among customer Web servers and directs client requests for hosted customer content to the appropriate caching server. The customer pays a service that provides the content delivery and global traffic management network system a fee for usage of the content delivery and global traffic management network system.