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AssigneeBlue Coat Systems, Inc.
InventorsShrikrishna Karandikar, Ravi Duvvuri, Juan Alemany, Neelkanth Shashikant Natu, Anil Gopinath, Bharat Parekh, Tom Herbert
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A method and apparatus for dynamically encoding transactional information into a document over a network. The transactional information may include information about client data, object properties, or network conditions. The document may contain embedded links with embedded objects that can be requested by a client. The embedded links may contain a URLs with associated domain names. The transactional information may be inserted into the domain name so that when the object request is subsequently translated by a DNS server, the DNS server can utilize the transactional information to intelligently translate the domain name into an IP address of a network device that can most advantageously serve the request.
A method, comprising receiving a request for a Web document that includes a request call specifying a Web address of an object embedded therein, dynamically encoding information regarding an entity requesting the Web document into the request call embedded within the Web document, and transmitting the Web document with the encoded request call therein.
A method, comprising routing a request for an object to a network device other than an origin server for said object according to information concerning a client requesting said object and network conditions, said information concerning the client having been obtained from a Web address specifying the information concerning the identity of the client and a location at which the object can be found.
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