Content delivery methods and systems

摘要

Aspects of the present disclosure involve provisioning customers of an aggregator, such as a reseller, of a content delivery network (CDN). In one aspect, content requests to the CDN are processed in accordance with the virtual IP (VIP) address at which the request was received, according to a property template bound to the VIP where the template is selected by the customer and only involves discrete parameters for the reseller. In another aspect, cache fills of the network are processed without direct knowledge of the customer origin through a combination of some request attribute, e.g., alias host of the customer, and an attribute of the reseller to make a DNS request to a name server outside the CDN. Another aspect involves receiving a property template selection, an origin and an alias from a customer of the reseller, and providing appropriate DNS entries to validate the customer and provide origin information to the CDN.

主权项

1. A method of managing content delivery in a computer network comprising:
receiving, at a virtual IP address of a content delivery network, a content request for content of a customer of an aggregator of services of the content delivery network; identifying an attribute of the content request, the attribute used by the aggregator of services to identify the customer; and combining the attribute with a fill template associated with the virtual IP address, the combination used to identify an origin of the content, a record of the origin stored outside the content delivery network.