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Extending an internet content delivery network into an enterprise

  • US 20020091801A1
  • Filed: 01/07/2002
  • Published: 07/11/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method operative in an Internet content delivery network (ICDN) having a set of content servers organized into regions and that provides delivery of Internet content on behalf of participating content providers, comprising:

  • establishing a set of one or more enterprise CDN regions within an enterprise firewall, wherein each enterprise CDN region has one or more surrogate origin servers;

    responsive to a request for given Internet content originating from an end user within the enterprise, mapping the end user to a preferred enterprise CDN region that is likely to host the given Internet content; and

    serving the given Internet content from the preferred enterprise CDN region.

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