Patent ID: 11936615
Assignee: AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC G  H

Claim 6:
7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing program instructions for execution one or more processors or one or more computers, said program instructions comprising instructions to cause the one or more computers to:
provide a plurality of Anycast deployments on the Internet to deliver one or more services to clients, each of the plurality of Anycast deployments comprising a block of one or more IP addresses advertised from two or more points of presence (PoPs);
determine a set of two or more client IP addresses that are routed to the same PoP as one another across the plurality of Anycast deployments, where the plurality of Anycast deployments have at least one of (i) different blocks of one or more IP addresses and (ii) different advertising PoPs;
select a particular IP address from the set of two or more IP addresses to represent the set of two or more IP addresses in a test; and,
based at least in part on a result of the test, take an action to improve the delivery of the one or more services.