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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 03, 2008
James Robert Ensor, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Jairo Orlando Esteban, Freehold, NJ (US);
Volker Fredrich Hilt, Middletown, NJ (US);
Markus Andreas Hofmann, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
Ivica Rimac, Tinton Falls, NJ (US);
James Robert Ensor, Red Bank, NJ (US);
Jairo Orlando Esteban, Freehold, NJ (US);
Volker Fredrich Hilt, Middletown, NJ (US);
Markus Andreas Hofmann, Fair Haven, NJ (US);
Ivica Rimac, Tinton Falls, NJ (US);
Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
The invention includes a method and apparatus for promoting a data item within a data distribution network. In one embodiment, a method includes monitoring at least one parameter for the data item where the data item is associated with an application or service, propagating the data item from a first data server toward a second data server based on the monitoring of the at least one parameter for the data item, and propagating, toward at least one device, a message indicative of the propagation of the data item from the first data server toward the second data server. The message is for adapting the at least one device to identify the second data server as a source of the data item capable of serving future requests for the data item.