Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Delivering video in a content delivery network
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Application No.: US17020580Application Date: 2020-09-14
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Publication No.: US11736740B2Publication Date: 2023-08-22
- Inventor: Dane Orion Knecht , Igor Postelnik , Oliver Yu , John Graham-Cumming , Dani Grant , Nitin Rao
- Applicant: Cloudflare, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA San Francisco
- Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.
- Current Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Francisco
- Agency: Nicholson De Vos Webster & Elliott LLP
- Main IPC: H04N21/231
- IPC: H04N21/231 ; H04N21/232 ; H04N21/845 ; H04N21/239 ; H04N21/218 ; H04N21/262

Abstract:
A server in a content delivery network (CDN) receives a request for a web page of a domain handled by an origin server. The server retrieves the web page and the web page references a video. The server retrieves a file that indicates a list of locations of the domain in which segments of the video are located. The server fetches at least an initial portion of the segments. The server receives a request for the video. The server transmits to the requester at least the initial portion of the segments. The server receives a subsequent request of a different portion of the segments. The server transmits a response to the requester that instructs the requester to transmit the request for the different portion of segments to a second server in the CDN.
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