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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8181227 | System and method for client-side authenticaton for secure internet communications A system and method for client-side authentication for secure Internet communications is disclosed. In one embodiment, an intermediate device receives a web browser secure socket layer certificate from a web browser, authenticates the web browser using the secure so... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180720 | Content delivery network (CDN) cold content handling A method of content delivery in a content delivery network (CDN), where the CDN is deployed, operated and managed by a content delivery network service provider (CDNSP). The CDN comprises a set of content servers and a domain name system (DNS) associated with a CDN ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8176203 | Load balancing using IPV6 mobility features Techniques are provided for using the mobility support features of IPv6 to allow client and server nodes to communicate without the continuing intervention of a load-balancing node that selected the server node. A load-balancing node intercepts a TCP SYN packet addr... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8170017 | Reliable, high-throughput, high-performance transport and routing mechanism for arbitrary data flows The present invention leverages an existing content delivery network infrastructure to provide a system that enhances performance for any application that uses the Internet Protocol (IP) as its underlying transport mechanism. An overlay network comprises a set of ed... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166079 | Dynamic content assembly on edge-of-network servers in a content delivery network The disclosed technique enables a content provider to dynamically assemble content at the edge of the Internet, preferably on content delivery network (CDN) edge servers. Preferably, the content provider leverages an “edge side include” (ESI) markup language tha... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8145908 | Web content defacement protection system A method and mechanism for protecting a website against defacement are provided. A content owner may associate content with a digital signature. The digital signature allows a recipient of the content to verify that the content originated from the content owner, and... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145765 | Distributed on-demand computing system A method and mechanism for a distributed on-demand computing system. The system automatically provisions distributed computing servers with customer application programs. The parameters of each customer application program are taken into account when a server is sel... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8135855 | Method and system for enhancing live stream delivery quality using prebursting The subject matter herein relates to a method to “accelerate” the delivery of a portion of a data stream across nodes of a stream transport network. A portion of a live stream is forwarded from a first node to a second node in a transport network at a high bitra... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8131835 | Method of load balancing edge-enabled applications in a content delivery network (CDN) A method and system of load balancing application server resources operating in a distributed set of servers is described. In a representative embodiment, the set of servers comprise a region of a content delivery network. Each server in the set typically includes a... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8122102 | Content delivery network (CDN) content server request handling mechanism To serve content through a content delivery network (CDN), the CDN must have some information about the identity, characteristics and state of its target objects. Such additional information is provided in the form of object metadata, which according to the inventio... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8117296 | Domain name resolution using a distributed DNS network A distributed DNS network includes a central origin server that actually controls the zone, and edge DNS cache servers configured to cache the DNS content of the origin server. The edge DNS cache servers are published as the authoritative servers for customer domain... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8078755 | Load balancing using IPv6 mobility features Techniques are provided that allow client and server nodes to communicate without the continuing intervention of a load-balancing node that selected the server node. A load-balancing node intercepts a TCP SYN packet addressed to a virtual IP address. The load-balanc... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8060581 | Dynamic image delivery system A dynamic image delivery system receives a client request for an image at an image caching server. The image caching server measures the client's network access speed and looks for an appropriate pre-rendered copy of the requested image that is rendered for the clie... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8041818 | Integrated point of presence server network and functionally organized web sites A network of point of presence servers allows a customer to organize their web site by functions where functions are mapped into domain names. The functions have requirements that define what is needed by a server to satisfy the function. The domain names are mapped... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8041809 | Method and system for providing on-demand content delivery for an origin server An infrastructure “insurance” mechanism enables a Web site to fail over to a content delivery network (CDN) upon a given occurrence at the site. Upon such occurrence, at least some portion of the site's content is served preferentially from the CDN so that end u... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8010861 | System for fast recovery from losses for reliable data communication protocols Fast recovery from losses is an important problem for reliable data communication protocols. The Internet standard TCP protocol (Transmission Control Protocol) implements two algorithms for that: an original one based on a special timer, and a later addition to TCP ... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7996533 | HTML delivery from edge-of-network servers in a content delivery network (CDN) A content delivery network is enhanced to provide for delivery of cacheable markup language content files such as HTML. To support HTML delivery, the content provider provides the CDNSP with an association of the content provider's domain name (e.g., www.customer.co... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7996531 | Content delivery network map generation using passive measurement data A routing method operative in a content delivery network (CDN) where the CDN includes a request routing mechanism for routing clients to subsets of edge servers within the CDN. According to the routing method, TCP connection data statistics are collected are edge se... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987252 | Method and system for constraining server usage in a distributed network A “velvet rope” mechanism that enables customers of a shared distributed network (such as a content delivery network) needing to control their costs to control the amount of traffic that is served via the shared network. A given server in the distributed network... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7979580 | Content delivery and global traffic management network system A content delivery and global traffic management network system provides a plurality of caching servers connected to a network. The caching servers host customer content that can be cached and stored, and respond to requests for Web content from clients. If the requ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7958249 | Highly scalable, fault tolerant file transport using vector exchange A file transport mechanism according to the invention is responsible for accepting, storing and distributing files, such as configuration or control files, to a large number of field machines. The mechanism is comprised of a set of servers that accept, store and mai... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7945655 | Scalable, high performance and highly available distributed storage system for internet content A method for content storage on behalf of participating content providers begins by having a given content provider identify content for storage. The content provider then uploads the content to a given storage site selected from a set of storage sites. Following up... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937477 | Transparent session persistence management by a cache server in a content delivery network A method and apparatus for establishing session persistence between a client and an origin server are provided. The session persistence can be managed by an intermediate cache server. The persistence is established by inserting an identifier and origin server addres... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7930402 | Automatic migration of data via a distributed computer network A method and apparatus for the automatic migration of data via a distributed computer network allows a customer to select content files that are to be transferred to a group of edge servers. Origin sites store all of a customer's available content files. An edge ser... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7929429 | Optimal route selection in a content delivery network A routing mechanism, service or system operable in a distributed networking environment. One preferred environment is a content delivery network (CDN) wherein the present invention provides improved connectivity back to an origin server, especially for HTTP traffic.... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925713 | Method for operating an integrated point of presence server network A method for operating a network of point of presence servers includes receiving a request from a user for a web page at a first web address, determining traffic loads of a plurality of customer web servers, determining a customer web server from the plurality of cu... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7912978 | Method for determining metrics of a content delivery and global traffic management network A method for determining metrics of a content delivery and global traffic management network provides service metric probes that determine the service availability and metric measurements of types of services provided by a content delivery machine. Latency probes ar... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7904541 | Global traffic management system using IP anycast routing and dynamic load-balancing A method and apparatus for serving content requests using global and local load balancing techniques is provided. Web site content is cached using two or more point of presences (POPs), wherein each POP has at least one DNS server. Each DNS server is associated with... | 03/08/2011 |
| 7873740 | Method and system for enhancing live stream delivery quality using prebursting The subject matter herein relates to a method to “accelerate” the delivery of a portion of a data stream across nodes of a stream transport network. A portion of a live stream is forwarded from a first node to a second node in a transport network at a high bitra... | 01/18/2011 |
| 7840667 | Content delivery network service provider (CDNSP)-managed content delivery network (CDN) for network service provider (NSP) A CDN service provider shares its CDN infrastructure with a network to enable a network service provider (NSP) to offer a private-labeled network content delivery network (NCDN or “private CDN”) to participating content providers. The CDNSP preferably provides t... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7793157 | Method and apparatus for testing request-response service using live connection traffic The subject matter herein provides for a method and apparatus for comparison of network systems using live traffic in real-time. The inventive technique presents real-world workload in real-time with no external impact (i.e. no impact on the system under test), and ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7769874 | Highly scalable, fault-tolerant file transport using vector-exchange A file transport mechanism according to the invention is responsible for accepting, storing and distributing files, such as configuration or control files, to a large number of field machines. The mechanism is comprised of a set of servers that accept, store and mai... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7765304 | Managing web tier session state objects in a content delivery network (CDN) Business applications running on a content delivery network (CDN) having a distributed application framework can create, access and modify state for each client. Over time, a single client may desire to access a given application on different CDN edge servers within... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7752258 | Dynamic content assembly on edge-of-network servers in a content delivery network The present invention enables a content provider to dynamically assemble content at the edge of the Internet, preferably on content delivery network (CDN) edge servers. Preferably, the content provider leverages an “edge side include” (ESI) markup language that ... | 07/06/2010 |
| 7743132 | Secure content delivery system A secure streaming content delivery system provides a plurality of content servers connected to a network that host customer content that can be cached and/or stored, e.g., images, video, text, and/or software. The content servers respond to requests for customer co... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7734823 | Edge side components and application programming environment for building and delivering highly distributed heterogenous component-based web applications A method is provided for processing an application on an edge server, wherein the application comprises a set of defined presentation, code and data components, each of which are preferably URI-addressable objects. In response to a client request, the presentation, ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734815 | Global load balancing across mirrored data centers The invention is an intelligent traffic redirection system that does global load balancing. It can be used in any situation where an end-user requires access to a replicated resource. The method directs end-users to the appropriate replica so that the route to the r... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7734814 | Decrypting load balancing array system A decrypting load balancing array system uses a Pentaflow approach to network traffic management that extends across an array of Decrypting Load Balancing Array (DLBA) servers sitting in front of back end Web servers. One of the DLBA servers acts as a scheduler for ... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7725602 | Domain name resolution using a distributed DNS network A distributed DNS network includes a central origin server that actually controls the zone, and edge DNS cache servers configured to cache the DNS content of the origin server. The edge DNS cache servers are published as the authoritative servers for customer domain... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7725576 | Method and apparatus for measuring stream availability, quality and performance A streaming measurement agent designed to experience, measure, and report on a media stream as an actual end user would experience the stream. Preferably, agent resides transparently within a streaming media player itself so that it can monitor stream packet flows w... | 05/25/2010 |
