Patent ID: 9544250
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L

Claim:
1. A method of operating a content delivery node, the method comprising: identifying a first content request from a first end user device for first data originating from an origin server, the first data cached by the content delivery node in memory; identifying a second content request from a second end user device for second data originating from the origin server and cached by the content delivery node in memory; generating first packets comprising the first data for the first content request; storing the first packets in a packet buffer of the content delivery node; transferring the first packets from the packet buffer to the first end user device and deleting the first packets from the packet buffer without regard to receiving a packet acknowledgment from the first end user device; generating second packets comprising the second data for the second content request; in response to deleting the first packets, storing the second packets in the packet buffer; transferring the second packets from the packet buffer to the second end user device and deleting the second packets from the packet buffer without regard to receiving a packet acknowledgment from the second end user device; and monitoring for the packet acknowledgments from the first end user device and the second end user device.