Inventors:
Mark Brady - Thousand Oaks CA, US
Maksim Yevmenkin - Thousand Oaks CA, US
Paul E. Stolorz - Thousand Oaks CA, US
John K. Salmon - Altadena CA, US
Michael S. Warren - Santa Fe NM, US
Jeffrey Koller - Torrance CA, US
Aric Hagberg - Santa Fe NM, US
David Pfitzner - Thousand Oaks CA, US
Ted Middleton - Moorpark CA, US
Assignee:
Level 3 Communications, LLC - Broomfield CO
International Classification:
G06F 15/173, G06F 15/16
Abstract:
In a framework wherein resources of a content provider may be delivered to clients from different domains, a method distributes the requests based on content-provider policies. In some cases, the domains include at least two distinct content delivery network (CDN) domains. The domains may include a content provider domain. Responsive to a request, either the content provider domain or one of the two CDN domains is selected, the selection being based at least in part on one or more policies set by the content provider.