PERFORMANCE COMPUTER NETWORK METHOD

• US 20090228588A1
• Filed: 05/22/2009
• Published: 09/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
• Inventors: Gupta, Ajit K., Swildens, Eric Sven-Johan, Day, Richard David
• Application Number:
  US12/471,209
• Publication Number:
  US 20090228588A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5012 determining service availability, e.g. which services are available at a certain point in time
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/509 wherein the managed service relates to media content delivery, e.g. audio, video or TV
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/00 Arrangements for monitoring or testing data switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0858 One way delays
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/12 Network monitoring probes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10015 Access to distributed or replicated servers, e.g. using brokers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1008 based on parameters of servers, e.g. available memory or workload monitoring of computer activity G06F11/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/101 based on network conditions
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A method for a computer network includes a plurality of customer web servers, each of the customer web servers storing a web page, using a POP DNS server to determine a customer web server from the plurality of customer web servers, the customer web server having a traffic load lower than traffic loads of other customer web servers in the plurality of customer web servers, requesting the web page from the customer web server, the web page including static content represented by an embedded URL, resolving the URL to a POP DNS server within a POP server network, using the POP DNS server to determine a web cache from a plurality of web caches to provide static content for the URL.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a graphical interface that allows a customer to view current and/or historical statistics of a Web site resident on the customer'"'"'s Web server;

a Web page resident on the customer'"'"'s Web server, said Web page including static content represented by an embedded URL;

wherein the static content is resident on a plurality of Web caches within a POP server network; and

a global traffic manager that manages traffic across a plurality of the customer'"'"'s Web servers and the plurality of Web caches, the global traffic manager gathering data for the graphical interface.