Patent ID: 7756913
Filing Date: 2010-07-13
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of providing content in a content delivery network (CDN) comprising: identifying a plurality of delivery treatments adaptable to content entities in the CDN, the delivery treatments operable to provide a particular delivery result to the content entity; enumerating user visible selection variables corresponding to each of the delivery treatments; displaying available content entities and selection variables to a user as a range of choices on a graphical user interface (GUI); receiving, from a user via the GUI, a selection of content entities and corresponding selection variables indicative of the preferred delivery treatment for each selected content entity, the selection variables defining a range of choices within available network resources; identifying delivery attributes from the received selection variables; mapping, in a set of rules, the identified delivery attributes to the corresponding delivery treatment for providing the particular delivery result; computing operational parameters corresponding to the mapped delivery treatment, the operational parameters adapted to provide the preferred delivery treatment by directing responsive nodes in the CDN; selecting, based on the operational parameters, local servers to provide static portions of the content entities and source servers to provide dynamic portions of the content entities; and disseminating the computed operational parameters to selected servers adapted to provide the file entities of the content entity.