Inventors:
Kazuhisa Yanagihara - Cupertino CA, US
Lionel Gentil - Dublin CA, US
Darrin B. Jewell - Woodside CA, US
Jason R. Thorpe - San Francisco CA, US
Jordan L. Redner - Redwood City CA, US
Gregory B. Vaughan - Santa Cruz CA, US
Gregory Burns - Los Altos CA, US
Assignee:
APPLE INC. - Cupertino CA
International Classification:
G06F 15/167
Abstract:
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that delivers content to an electronic device. The system includes a content provider that obtains a public address of the electronic device from a first request for the content from the electronic device. Next, the content provider uses the public address to identify a local caching server on a local area network (LAN) of the electronic device. Finally, the content provider provides a local address of the local caching server to the electronic device, wherein the local address is used by the electronic device to obtain the content from the local caching server and the LAN without accessing a content delivery network (CDN) outside the LAN.