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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2014
Filed:
May. 03, 2011
Ali C. Begen, London, CA;
Mark Baugher, Portland, OR (US);
Francois Le Faucheur, Valbonne, FR;
David R. Oran, Acton, MA (US);
Ali C. Begen, London, CA;
Mark Baugher, Portland, OR (US);
Francois Le Faucheur, Valbonne, FR;
David R. Oran, Acton, MA (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method that receives at a cache server device a request from a client device for a first representation of a content chunk; determines whether the first representation is available at the cache server device; responsive to determining that the first representation is available at the cache server device, provides the first representation to the client device; responsive to determining that the first representation is unavailable at the cache server device, determines whether a congestion-like condition is present in an upstream network; and responsive to determining that the congestion-like condition is present in the upstream network, provides a second representation of the content chunk.