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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2013
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
F. Thomson Leighton, Newtonville, MA (US);
Rizwan S. Dhanidina, Cambridge, MA (US);
Robert D. Kleinberg, Somerville, MA (US);
Matthew Levine, Somerville, MA (US);
Daniel M. Lewin, Cambridge, MA (US);
Andrew Parker, Cambridge, MA (US);
Adrian Soviani, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ravi Sundaram, Cambridge, MA (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A method for Internet delivery in a delivery network established at network locations, the delivery network comprising a plurality of content servers for serving resources. The servers include a plurality of subsets, each subset being located at one of a plurality of Internet data centers. For each Internet Protocol (IP) address block from which requests for content resources are expected to be received, the method generates a candidate list of data centers to be used to service the requests. For the IP address block, the method selects at least one of the data centers from the candidate list. The selected Internet data center for the IP address block is written into a network map. In response to a DNS query, the map is used to identify one of the Internet data centers from the candidate list to be used to service a request for a content resource.