CDN-based client messaging
AssigneeLevel 3 Communications, LLC
InventorChristopher Newton
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Abstract
Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for a Content Distribution Network (CDN) node of a CDN to facilitate communication among two or more clients, including but not limited to determining, by the CDN node, that the two or more clients are connected to the CDN node for accessing content data originating from an origin server, receiving, by the CDN node, a message from a first client of the two or more clients, the message is to be routed to at least one second client of the two or more clients, and sending, by the CDN node, the message to the at least one second client without routing the message to the origin server.
Claims19
A method for a Content Distribution Network (CDN) node of a CDN to facilitate communication among two or more clients, the method comprising:
- determining, by the CDN node of the CDN, that the two or more clients are connected to the CDN node for accessing content data originating from an origin server;
- receiving, by the CDN node of the CDN, a message from a first client of the two or more clients, wherein the message is to be routed to at least one second client of the two or more clients;
- and
- based on determining that the two or more clients are connected to the CDN node of the CDN, sending, by the CDN node of the CDN, the message to the at least one second client without routing the message to the origin server.
A Content Distribution Network (CDN) node of a CDN, comprising:
- a network device;
- a memory;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- determine that two or more clients are connected to the CDN node of the CDN for accessing content data originating from an origin server;
- receive a message from a first client of the two or more clients, wherein the message is to be routed, using the CDN node of the CDN to at least one second client of the two or more clients;
- and
- based on determining that the two or more clients are connected to the CDN node of the CDN, send the message to the at least one second client without routing the message to the origin server.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-readable instructions such that, when executed, cause a processor of a Content Distribution Network (CDN) node of a CDN to:
- determine that two or more clients are connected to the CDN node of the CDN for accessing content data originating from an origin server;
- receive a message from a first client of the two or more clients, wherein the message is to be routed, using the CDN node of the CDN, to at least one second client of the two or more clients;
- and
- based on determining that the two or more clients are connected to the CDN node of the CDN, send the message to the at least one second client without routing the message to the origin server.
A Content Distribution Network (CDN) node of a CDN, comprising:
- means for determining that two or more clients are connected to the CDN node of the CDN for accessing content data originating from an origin server;
- means for receiving a message from a first client of the two or more clients, wherein the message is to be routed, using the CDN node of the CDN, to at least one second client of the two or more clients;
- and
- based on determining that the two or more clients are connected to the CDN node of the CDN, means for sending the message to the at least one second client without routing the message to the origin server.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.