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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2012
Tomohiko Yagyu, Tokyo, JP;
Tomohiko Yagyu, Tokyo, JP;
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a router to acquire a content, even when accessibility to a server is impossible due to a network failure. The router comprises: a unit for storing content data included in a content reply message transmitted from a content server; a unit for, when the content server becomes unreachable, broadcasting, to other routers, an MBC setting request message configured to set guidance information in the other routers, the guidance information being used, when a content request message which requests the content server for the content data is transmitted from a content request node, to transfer the content request message to the own router; and a unit for replying a content reply message including the stored content data, when the content request message used to request the content server for the content data is transferred in accordance with the guidance information.