Crowd based content delivery
AssigneeFortinet, Inc.
InventorBarrett Gibson Lyon
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Abstract
Methods and systems for crowd based content delivery are provided. According to one embodiment, a preference of a content publisher is received at a resource manager. An indication is received at the resource manager that the resource manager is to redirect a request for a content item. A state of a network is monitored by the resource manager. A resource provider in the network capable of servicing the request is selected based at least in part on the state of the network and the preference of the content publisher. The request is redirected to the resource provider.
Claims23
1-22. (canceled)
A method comprising:
- receiving, at a resource manager, a preference of a content publisher;
- receiving, at the resource manager, from the content publisher an indication that the resource manager is to redirect a request for a content item;
- monitoring, at the resource manager, a state of a network;
- selecting a resource provider in the network capable of servicing the request based at least in part on the state of the network and the preference of the content publisher;
- and
- redirecting the request for the content item to the resource provider.
A computer system for handling request comprising:
- a non-transitory storage device having embodied therein one or more routines;
- and
- one or more processors coupled to the non-transitory storage device and operable to execute the one or more routines to perform a method comprising:
- receiving a preference of the content publisher;
- receiving from a content publisher an indication that the resource manager is to redirect a request for a content item;
- monitoring a state of a network;
- selecting a resource provider capable of servicing the request based at least in part on the health of the network and the preference of the content publisher;
- and
- redirecting the request for the content item to the resource provider.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.