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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2013
Applicant:
Limelight Networks, Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Inventors:
Jonathan Cobb, Piedmont, CA (US);
David Rowley, Benicia, CA (US);
Scott Anderson, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abbas Mahyari, Newark, CA (US);
Nikita Dolgov, Concord, CA (US);
Carl Rivas, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
Limelight Networks, Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 41/0806 (2013.01); G06F 9/5055 (2013.01); G06F 9/5072 (2013.01);
Abstract
Aspects of the present invention include using a single network identifier for delivering multiple versions of a content object. In some embodiments, a plurality of versions of the content object are created and associated with the single network identifier. When an edge server in a CDN receives a request for the content object, the edge server queries a policy server for a preferred version of the content object to deliver to an end user.