Techniques for traffic surge protection of live origin server
AssigneeNetflix, Inc.
InventorsXiaomei LIU, Joseph LYNCH
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Abstract
One embodiment of a method for responding to requests for media content includes receiving a first request from a first client for at least one segment of a media content item, retrieving, from a datastore, a reference to each segment included in the at least one segment, retrieving, from a cache, the at least one segment of the media content item based on the reference to each segment included in the at least one segment, and transmitting the at least one segment of the media content item to the first client.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- receiving, from a client, a request for at least one segment of a media content item;
- retrieving the at least one segment from a cache;
- and
- providing the at least one segment to the client.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform steps comprising:
- receiving, from a client, a request for at least one segment of a media content item;
- retrieving the at least one segment from a cache;
- and
- providing the at least one segment to the client.
A system, comprising:
- one or more memories storing instructions;
- and
- one or more processors that are coupled to the one or more memories and, when executing the instructions, are configured to perform the steps of:
- receiving, from a client, a request for at least one segment of a media content item;
- retrieving the at least one segment from a cache;
- and
- providing the at least one segment to the client.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.