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US 2003/0112792 A1Published application
Method for content-aware redirection and content renaming
AssigneeAT&T Corp.
InventorsCharles D. Cranor, Raman Gopalakrishnan, Matthew D. Green, Charles Robert Kalmanek JR., David Hilton Shur, Sandeep Sibal, Jacobus E. van der Merwe
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to mechanisms for content-aware redirection and content exchange/content discovery that permit a request for content to be redirected to a particular advantageous server that can serve the content.
Claims9
A method for distributing content in a packet-switched network comprising the steps of:
- receiving from a client a request for content identified by a resource identifier;
- querying a mapping service using the resource identifier of the content;
- receiving a list of servers in the network that store the content identified by the resource identifier;
- and
- redirecting the client to one of the servers using a second resource identifier.
2 more elements
A method for distributing content in a packet-switched network comprising the steps of:
- storing in a database a list of servers in the network that store content identified by a resource identifier;
- updating the database as content stored on the servers change;
- responding to queries requesting content identified by a resource identifier with the list of servers that store the content, wherein the list of servers can be used to redirect clients to one of the servers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.