Re: [squid-users] Akamai's new patent 7596619

how the big company use the lawyer to protect their business. very tricky.
the technology behind CDN is not so complicated, this patent will
close anyone who will build startup CDN.

Johan
On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 5:33 PM, mandr <albert_at_mba.hk> wrote:
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> Take a look at this patent, granted on September 29, 2009
>
> HTML delivery from edge-of-network servers in a content delivery network
> (CDN)
>
> Abstract
> A content delivery network is enhanced to provide for delivery of cacheable
> markup language content files such as HTML. To support HTML delivery, the
> content provider provides the CDNSP with an association of the content
> provider's domain name (e.g., www.customer.com) to an origin server domain
> name (e.g., html.customer.com) at which one or more default HTML files are
> published and hosted. The CDNSP provides its customer with a CDNSP-specific
> domain name. The content provider, or an entity on its behalf, then
> implements DNS entry aliasing (e.g., a CNAME of the host to the
> CDNSP-specific domain) so that domain name requests for the host cue the CDN
> DNS request routing mechanism. This mechanism then identifies a best content
> server to respond to a request directed to the customer's domain. The CDN
> content server returns a default HTML file if such file is cached;
> otherwise, the CDN content server directs a request for the file to the
> origin server to retrieve the file, after which the file is cached on the
> CDN content server for subsequent use in servicing other requests. The
> content provider is also provided with log files of CDNSP-delivered HTML.
>
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=Akamai&OS=Akamai&RS=Akamai
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Received on Sun Oct 04 2009 - 11:39:57 MDT