Patent ID: 11929978
Assignee: LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A content delivery method comprising:
receiving a uniform resource locator resolution request at a name server for a domain, the uniform resource locator resolution request received based, at least in part, on a host name of the uniform resource locator resolution request, the host name related to a resource associated with the uniform resource resolution request;
tracking, at the name server, a popularity of the resource by determining a number of times the host name related to the resource is requested, wherein the host name includes an index uniquely related to the resource; and
providing a node within a network capable of delivering the resource, the provided node based on the popularity of the resource,
wherein the host name additionally includes a function of a path indicative of the resource.