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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2012
Claudson F. Bornstein, Cambridge, MA (US);
Timothy K. Canfield, Cambridge, MA (US);
Gary L. Miller, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Satish B. Rao, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ravi Sundaram, Cambridge, MA (US);
Claudson F. Bornstein, Cambridge, MA (US);
Timothy K. Canfield, Cambridge, MA (US);
Gary L. Miller, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Satish B. Rao, Berkeley, CA (US);
Ravi Sundaram, Cambridge, MA (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A routing mechanism operable in a distributed networking environment, such as a content delivery network (CDN), provides improved connectivity back to an origin server, especially for HTTP traffic. The technique enables an edge server operating within a given edge region to retrieve content (cacheable, non-cacheable and the like) from an origin server more efficiently by selectively routing through the network's own nodes, thereby avoiding network congestion and hot spots. The technique enables an edge server to fetch content from an origin server through an intermediate edge server or, more generally, enables an edge server within a given first region to fetch content from the origin server through an intermediate edge region.