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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 18, 2013
Filed:
May. 30, 2007
David A. Farber, Ojai, CA (US);
Richard E. Greer, Red Lodge, MT (US);
Andrew D. Swart, Pennington, NJ (US);
James A. Balter, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
David A. Farber, Ojai, CA (US);
Richard E. Greer, Red Lodge, MT (US);
Andrew D. Swart, Pennington, NJ (US);
James A. Balter, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Level 3 Communications, LLC, Broomfield, CO (US);
Abstract
A method for delivering resources to clients in a distributed computing environment. At least a first resource associated with a first content provider and maintained on an origin server references a second resource. The second resource is associated with a network formed by a plurality of repeater servers operable to serve the second resource to clients on behalf of the first content provider, the origin server being distinct from the plurality of repeater servers. Responsive to a request that causes the first resource to be served to a client from the origin server, at least one of the plurality of repeater servers is selected to serve the second resource to the client. If a copy of the second resource is available on the selected repeater server, the copy of the second resource is served to the client from the selected repeater server; otherwise, if a copy of the second resource is not available on the selected repeater server, the second resource is replicated on the selected repeater server.