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AssigneeLevel 3 Communications, LLC
InventorsWilliam R. Power, Christopher Newton, Laurence Lipstone, William Crowder
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A computer-implemented method, in a content delivery (CD) network that delivers content on behalf of multiple content providers. The method includes, at a server in the CDN, wherein the server is currently processing at least one other request in at least one other session: receiving a connection request from a client, the connection request being associated with a corresponding content request; determining whether handling the content request will cause the server to become overloaded; and, based on the determining in (B) and on information about the content request, conditionally (i) accepting the content request, and (ii) terminating or throttling at least one session on the server.
A computer-implemented method, in a network, the method comprising, at a server in said network:
An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory computer-readable medium having program instructions stored thereon, the program instructions, operable on a computer system in a network, said device implementing at least one service, wherein execution of the program instructions by one or more processors of said computer system causes the one or more processors to carry out the acts of:
A device in a network, said device implementing a service, the device:
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