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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 21, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 08, 2014
Cisco Technology Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Francois LeFaucheur, Valbonne, FR;
Qi Wang, Shanghai, CN;
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a system component in a content delivery network (CDN), the CDN including a request router and edge caches, the request router being operable to determine which edge cache should serve content to a client, the system component including a processor, and a memory to store data used by the processor, wherein the processor is operative to receive a request for content from the client, and based on a decision to shut down a first edge cache after the client has already downloaded some of the content from the first edge cache, participate in a process to transfer the client from downloading the content from the first edge cache to downloading the content from a second edge cache in the middle of the client downloading the content so that the client continues downloading the content from the second edge cache. Related apparatus and methods are also described.