Cdn-based client messaging
AssigneeLevel 3 Communications, LLC
InventorChristopher Newton
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Abstract
Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for a node of a network to facilitate communication among two or more clients, including but not limited to determining, by the node, that the two or more clients are connected to the node for accessing data originating from an origin server, receiving, by the node, a message from a first client of the two or more clients, the message is to be routed to at least one second client of the two or more clients, and sending, by the node, the message to the at least one second client without routing the message to the origin server.
Claims14
A method of a network to facilitate communication among two or more clients, the method comprising:
- receiving a message from a first client of the two or more clients, wherein the message is to be routed to at least one second client of the two or more clients;
- and
- sending the message to the at least one second client without routing the message to an origin server of the network used by the two or more clients for accessing data.
A network, comprising:
- a network device;
- a memory;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- receive a message from a first client of two or more clients connected to a network for accessing data, wherein the message is to be routed, using the network, to at least one second client of the two or more clients;
- and
- send the message to the at least one second client without routing the message to an origin server of the network used by the two or more clients for accessing data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.