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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2015
Linkedin Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bill Nguyen, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Vincent Mallet, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Nicholas Woods, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jessica Cheng, Mountain View, CA (US);
Sandip Chokshi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Ganesh Ramanarayanan, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Megan Streich, San Francisco, CA (US);
LinkedIn Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Example systems and methods of distributing content in computer networks are provided. Content received at a first distribution server is transmitted to a plurality of destination devices via the communication network. When a traffic condition regarding the transmitting of the received content stream is detecting, an indication of the traffic condition to a traffic management device. Then, an instruction is received from the traffic management device to assign at least one other distribution server to additional destination devices in response to the indication of the traffic condition, and the received content stream is transmitted from the distribution server to the at least one other distribution server for distribution to the additional destination devices in response to the instruction.