Patent ID: 9584473
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: causing client requests for content published by a content publisher in Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) format and hosted by an IPv4 server to be directed or redirected to a traffic management node of a plurality of geographically distributed traffic management nodes by configuring a first domain name of the content publisher to point to a second domain name associated with the traffic management node via a canonical name (CNAME) record of a domain name system (DNS); receiving, by the traffic management node, a request for the content from a client that has been directed or redirected to the traffic management node as a result of said configuring; determining, by the traffic management node, communication capabilities of the client based on an ability of the client to access a set of test content; and based on the determined communication capabilities and a traffic management policy specified by the content publisher, directing, by the traffic management node, the request to an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) proxy server or the IPv4 server, wherein the IPv6 proxy server hosts the web page content in IPv6 format, wherein the content was obtained by the IPv6 proxy server from the IPv4 server and translated from the IPv4 format to the IPv6 format.