Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Internet protocol version 6 content routing
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Application No.: US15725423Application Date: 2017-10-05
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Publication No.: US10757173B2Publication Date: 2020-08-25
- Inventor: Jacobus Van der Merwe , Seungjoon Lee , Oliver Spatscheck
- Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Akerman LLP
- Agent Michael K. Dixon; Mammen (Roy) P. Zachariah, Jr.
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; H04L29/12 ; H04L29/06 ; H04L25/03

Abstract:
A content delivery system includes a cache server, a domain name server, and a redirector. The domain name server is configured to receive a request for a cache server address, and provide an IPv6 anycast address. The redirector is configured to receive a content request addressed to the IPv6 anycast address from a client system, receive load information from the cache server, and determine if the cache server is available. The redirector is further configured to forward the content request to the cache server when the cache server is available. The cache server is configured to receive the content request forwarded from the redirectors, send a response to the content request to a client system, the response including an IPv6 unicast address of the cache server as a source address, an IPv6 unicast address of the client system as a destination address, and the IPv6 anycast address as a home address, and provide the content to the requestor.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180034902A1 INTERNET PROTOCOL VERSION 6 CONTENT ROUTING Public/Granted day:2018-02-01
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