COOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF DISTRIBUTED NETWORK CACHES

摘要

The techniques described employ a cooperative organization of network servic e providers (114) to imploy improved distributed network services. Aspects include managing content caches (206) by receiving control signals specifyin g actions related to cached content that is distributed on a network (204), su ch as the Internet, and forwarding the control signals through to the caching locations to implement the actions represented by control signals, thus providing content publishers (102) the capability of refreshing their conten t regardless of where it is cached.