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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2008
Shrikrishna Karandikar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ravi Duvvuri, Cupertino, CA (US);
Juan Alemany, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Neelkanth Shashikant Natu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anil Gopinath, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bharat Parekh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tom Herbert, San Jose, CA (US);
Shrikrishna Karandikar, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ravi Duvvuri, Cupertino, CA (US);
Juan Alemany, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Neelkanth Shashikant Natu, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Anil Gopinath, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bharat Parekh, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tom Herbert, San Jose, CA (US);
Blue Coat Systems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for dynamically encoding transactional information into a document over a network. The transactional information may include information about client data, object properties, or network conditions. The document may contain embedded links with embedded objects that can be requested by a client. The embedded links may contain URLs with associated domain names. The transactional information may be inserted into the domain name so that when the object request is subsequently translated by a DNS server, the DNS server can utilize the transactional information to intelligently translate the domain name into an IP address of a network device that can most advantageously serve the request.