Patent ID: 8984144
Filing Date: 2015-03-17
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving from a client device, by a first content delivery network (CDN), a first request for a content item, wherein the first request is received over a data network; determining, by a computing device associated with the first CDN, to forward the first request for the content item to a second CDN different from the first CDN; sending a query from the first CDN to a determined application programming interface (API) of the second CDN to obtain a location associated with the content item in the second CDN; after receiving a query response from the second CDN, sending the location of the content item in the second CDN to the client device; receiving at the first CDN, from the second CDN, a request for metadata associated with the content item; and sending the metadata associated with the content item to the second CDN.