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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 27, 2012
Jason Eggleston, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Nils Mccarthy, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Bradley B. Harvell, Chandler, AZ (US);
Mohan I. Kokal, Peoria, AZ (US);
Jason Eggleston, Newport Beach, CA (US);
Nils McCarthy, Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Bradley B. Harvell, Chandler, AZ (US);
Mohan I. Kokal, Peoria, AZ (US);
Limelight Networks, Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
A method or system for transferring information during the domain name service (DNS) lookup to more effectively utilizing the content delivery network (CDN) is disclosed. Information gathered from DNS request is used to identify information on how to serve the content with a chosen IP address returned from the DNS lookup. The DNS server selects from a number of possible IP addresses after analyzing information from the DNS request and popularity of associated content. The different IP addresses will result in different edge servers providing content. An IP address could be provided for popular content in a way that will tend to populate more content caches from the pool of edge servers in one embodiment.