Patent ID: 9674220
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for optimizing the delivery of content items over a network, comprising: intercepting a request sent from a first node to retrieve a content item from a web source, the request includes information related the web source; extracting from the request a pointer to the web source and requested content item; identifying using the pointer at least one additional node that has previously requested the content item from the web source; selecting one of the at least one additional node as a second node for providing the content item to the first node; fetching the content item from the second node; enabling a display of the content item on the first node; generating at least one signature for the content item fetched from the second node; comparing the generated signature to an original signature received from an external source; and terminating the fetching the content item from the second node, thereby the generated signature allows validating correctness of the content item on the web source.