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US 2011/0219109 A1Published application
System and method for sharing transparent proxy between isp and cdn
AssigneeCotendo, Inc.
InventorsRonni Zehavi, Udi Trugman, David Drai
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Abstract
A system and a method for sharing a proxy between an ISP (Internet Service Provider) or other Internet point of presence, and a CDN (content delivery network).
Claims27
A method for managing traffic at a point of presence on a computer network to an end user computer, comprising:
- a. Providing a proxy at said point of presence, wherein said proxy is also accessible to a CDN (content delivery network);
- b. Placing one or more content objects in said proxy by said CDN;
- c. Rerouting a content request for a content object from the end user computer to said point of presence through said proxy;
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- d. If said content object is available in said proxy, transferring said content object from said proxy directly to said end user computer.
2 more elements
A system for managing outbound traffic at a point of presence on a computer network, the system comprising:
- a. A proxy at said point of presence, said proxy comprising content storage;
- b. A manager at said proxy for managing content;
- c. A CDN (content delivery network) for propagating content from one or more content provider servers to said proxy for storage in said content storage;
- d. An end user computer for requesting content from the point of presence, wherein said request is rerouted to said proxy, such that if available, said content is provided from said content storage;
- e. A first computer network for connecting said CDN to said proxy;
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- f. A second computer network for connecting said proxy to said end user.
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A method for propagating content to a proxy at a point of presence;
- comprising:
- a. Propagating data content from one or more content providers to the proxy;
- b. Caching said content in a local cache at said proxy;
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- c. Removing objects from said local cache according to TTL (time to live).
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