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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 14, 2012
Level 3 Communications, Llc, Broomfield, CO (US);
Christopher Newton, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Laurence R. Lipstone, Calabasas, CA (US);
William Crowder, Camarillo, CA (US);
Jeffrey G. Koller, Oxnard, CA (US);
David Fullagar, Boulder, CO (US);
Maksim Yevmenkin, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Level 3 Communications, LLC, Broomfield, CO (US);
Abstract
A device is operable in a content delivery network (CDN). The device has a cache server mechanism constructed and adapted to: upon joining the CDN, obtain global configuration data from a control core of the CDN; and, having joined the CDN, obtain updated global configuration data, if needed; and obtain customer configuration information associated with at least one customer of the CDN. The device serves a particular resource associated with a particular customer of the CDN in accordance with (i) the global configuration data, and (ii) customer configuration information obtained in and associated with the particular customer.