METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING CONTENT PROVISION OF CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK

摘要

The present invention provides a method, an apparatus and a system for controlling the content provision of a Content Delivery Network (CDN), which enables the CDN to identify the type of a content request and to perform stream control according to the type of the content request. The present invention uses a content provision server in the CDN to determine the type of an access request after receiving the access request and to send a request message carrying the type of the access request to a content access location server in the CDN, which enables the content access location server to control the content provision according to the type of the access request, and can implement different processing for different type of requests, thus improving the user experience and enhancing the user satisfaction.