Updating routing information based on client location

• US 10,027,582 B2
• Filed: 03/30/2015
• Issued: 07/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Richardson, David R., Marshall, Bradley Eugene, Sivasubramanian, Swaminathan
• Primary Examiner(s): Boutah, Alina A
• Application Number:
  US14/673,743
• Publication Number:
  US 20150207733A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,205 Days
• Field of Search: 709238, 709245
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2101/69 using geographic information, e.g. room number
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/74 Address processing for routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/45 Network directories; Name-to-address mapping
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A system, method, and computer-readable medium for updating request routing information associated with client location information are provided. A content delivery network service provider receives a DNS query from a client computing device. The DNS query corresponds to a resource identifier for requested content from the client computing device. The content delivery network service provider obtains a query IP address corresponding to the client computing device. Based on routing information associated with the query IP address, the content delivery network service provider routes the DNS query. The process further includes monitoring performance data associated with the transmission of the requested resource and updating routing information associated with the query IP address based on the performance data for use in processing subsequent requests from the client computing device.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

obtaining a first domain name system (DNS) query from a client computing device at a first DNS server, wherein the first DNS query is associated with a first requested resource and wherein the first DNS server is associated with a content delivery network service;

obtaining a query internet protocol (IP) address associated with the first DNS query at the first DNS server, wherein the query IP address is associated with the client computing device;

obtaining, at the first DNS server from a data store, an identifier from a plurality of identifiers based, at least in part, on a portion of the obtained query IP address, wherein the data store includes at least one partial IP address to identifier mapping, and wherein the data store further includes network points of presence mappings to at least one of the plurality of identifiers; and

resolving the first DNS query based on the identifier.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the identifier is different from the obtained query IP address associated with the first DNS query.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the query IP address being associated with the client computing device comprises a query IP address corresponding to a local DNS resolver of the client computing device.

4. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:

collecting performance data associated with transmission of the first requested resource; and

updating routing information in the data store and associated with the query IP address, the updating of the routing information based on the performance data.

5. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein updating routing information in the data store comprises updating a confidence factor corresponding to the at least one partial IP address to identifier mapping associated with the query IP address.

6. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein updating routing information in the data store comprises modifying the data store with an updated destination identifier corresponding to the identifier associated with the query IP address.

7. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein the data store further includes network points of presence mappings to at least one of the identifiers.

8. The method as recited in claim 4, wherein updating routing information in the data store comprises modifying the data store with an updated network point of presence mapping.

9. A computer system comprising:

a data store including internet protocol (IP) address to identifier mappings, wherein the IP address to identifier mappings include at least one partial IP address to identifier mapping, and wherein the data store includes a plurality of identifiers and network point of presence mappings to at least one of the plurality of identifiers; and

a first network point of presence associated with a content delivery network service provider, wherein the first network point of presence comprises at least one computing device and is operative to;

obtain a first domain name system (DNS) query from a client computing device at a first DNS server, wherein the first DNS query is associated with a first requested resource and wherein the first DNS server is associated with a content delivery network service;

obtain a query IP address associated with the first DNS query at the first DNS server, wherein the query IP address is associated with the client computing device;

obtain, at the first DNS server from the data store, an identifier from the plurality of identifiers based, at least in part, on a portion of the obtained query IP address; and

resolve the first DNS query based on the identifier.

10. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein the identifier is different from the obtained query IP address associated with the first DNS query.

11. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein the query IP address being associated with the client computing device comprises a query IP address corresponding to a local DNS resolver of the client computing device.

12. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein obtaining the identifier comprises matching a portion of the query IP address with a partial IP address identified in the at least one partial IP address to identifier mapping in the data store.

13. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein the data store includes a full IP address to identifier mapping, and wherein obtaining the identifier comprises matching a portion of the query IP address with a portion of the full IP address identified in the full IP address to identifier mapping in the data store.

14. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein the data store includes a full IP address to identifier mapping, and wherein obtaining the identifier comprises partially matching the query IP address with a full IP address identified in the full IP address to identifier mapping in the data store.

15. The system as recited in claim 9, wherein the first network point of presence is further operative to:

collect performance data associated with transmission of the first requested resource; and

update routing information in the data store and associated with the query IP address, the updating of the routing information based on the performance data.

16. The system as recited in claim 15, wherein updating routing information in the data store comprises updating a confidence factor corresponding to the at least one partial IP address to identifier mapping associated with the query IP address.

17. The system as recited in claim 15, wherein updating routing information in the data store comprises modifying the data store with an updated destination identifier corresponding to the identifier associated with the query IP address.

18. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions that when executed by a processor perform operations comprising:

obtaining a first domain name system (DNS) query from a client computing device at a first DNS server, wherein the first DNS query is associated with a first requested resource and wherein the first DNS server is associated with a content delivery network service;

obtaining a query internet protocol (IP) address associated with the first DNS query at the first DNS server, wherein the query IP address is associated with the client computing device;

obtaining, at the first DNS server from a data store, an identifier from a plurality of identifiers based on a portion of the obtained query IP address, wherein the data store includes at least one partial IP address to identifier mapping, and wherein the data store further includes network points of presence mappings to at least one of the plurality of identifiers; and

resolving the first DNS query based on the identifier.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium as recited in claim 18, wherein obtaining the identifier comprises matching a portion of the query IP address with a partial IP address identified in the at least one partial IP address to identifier mapping in the data store.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium as recited in claim 18, wherein the data store includes a full IP address to identifier mapping, and wherein obtaining the identifier comprises matching a portion of the query IP address with a portion of the full IP address identified in the full IP address to identifier mapping in the data store.

21. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium as recited in claim 18, wherein the data store includes a full IP address to identifier mapping, and wherein obtaining the identifier comprises partially matching the query IP address with a full IP address identified in the full IP address to identifier mapping in the data store.

22. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium as recited in claim 18, wherein the computer executable instructions that when executed by a processor perform operations further comprising:

collecting performance data associated with transmission of the first requested resource; and

modifying the data store based on the performance data with an updated identifier associated with the query IP address.