Relay apparatus and relay method
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsYuji Kojima, Kenichi Fukuda
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Abstract
There is provided a relay apparatus including a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to receive a first packet including an identifier for indicating a content, determine whether or not the content indicated by the identifier included in the first packet is saved in a cache, transmit a second packet including a source address of the first packet and the identifier when it is determined that the content is not saved in the cache, and transmit a third packet including an address of the relay apparatus and the identifier when it is determined that the content is saved in the cache.
Claims10
A relay apparatus comprising:
- a memory;
- and
- a processor coupled to the memory and configured to:
- receive a first packet including an identifier for indicating a content;
- determine whether the content indicated by the identifier included in the first packet is required to be stored in a cache;
- transmit a second packet including a source address of the first packet and the identifier when determined that the content is not required to be stored in the cache;
- and
- transmit a third packet including an address of the relay apparatus and the identifier when determined that the content is required to be stored in the cache.
A relay method by a relay apparatus, the method comprising:
- receiving a first packet including an identifier for indicating a content;
- determining whether the content indicated by the identifier included in the first packet is required to be stored in a cache;
- transmitting a second packet including a source address of the first packet and the identifier when determined that the content is not required to be stored in the cache;
- and
- transmitting a third packet including an address of the relay apparatus and the identifier when determined that the content is required to be stored in the cache, by a processor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.