Patent ID: 9419845
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: querying, by a client device, a location server using a client-selected interface for content retrieval from a content distribution network (CDN); receiving a location attribute from the location server based on a location of the client device, wherein the location attribute is encoded as a string; presenting the location attribute to a CDN selector within a first content retrieval request, wherein the first content retrieval request is a hyper-text transport protocol (HTTP) GET request; including the location attribute within an entity-header of the first content retrieval request; receiving a redirection from the CDN selector to a selected content source based on the location attribute; and initiating a second content retrieval request from the client device to the selected content source, wherein the second content retrieval request is an HTTP GET request.