Network address resolution
AssigneeLevel 3 Communications, LLC
InventorChristopher Newton
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Abstract
A content delivery method including the operations of receiving a uniform resource locator resolution request at an authoritative name server for a domain where the uniform resource resolution request is received based, at least in part, on a host name of the uniform resource resolution request where the host name is uniquely related to a resource associated with the uniform resource resolution request. The method further including the operation of tracking a popularity of the resource based on the host name uniquely related to the resource and providing a location within a network capable of delivering the resource where the provided location is based on the popularity of the resource.
Claims18
A content delivery method comprising:
- receiving a uniform resource locator resolution request at a name server for a domain, the uniform resource locator resolution request received based, at least in part, on a host name of the uniform resource locator resolution request, the host name related to a resource associated with the uniform resource resolution request;
- tracking, at the name server, a popularity of the resource by determining a number of times the host name related to the resource is requested, wherein the host name includes a function of a path indicative of the resource prepended to domain name for the domain;
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- providing a node within a network capable of delivering the resource, the provided node based on the popularity of the resource.
An apparatus comprising:
- at least one processing device in communication with a non-transitory computer readable media including computer executable instructions for:
- receiving a uniform resource locator resolution request at a name server for a domain, the uniform resource locator resolution request received based, at least in part, on a host name of the uniform resource locator resolution request, the host name related to a resource associated with the uniform resource locator resolution request;
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- tracking, at the name server, a popularity of the resource within a particular geographic region by determining a number of times the host name uniquely related to the resource is requested within the particular geographic region, wherein the host name includes a function of a path to the resource prepended to domain name for the domain.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.