SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIRECTING A CLIENT TO A CONTENT SOURCE

摘要

A system for directing a client connection request to one of several server clusters (30) associated with a content source. The system has a communication module (50) for receiving a content identifier from a client (60) looking to access a specific content source, and a data table containing pointers to server clusters (30) associated with the desired content source. The server clusters (30) each transmit to the system information regarding their available capacity and connection quality with the client. In response to client's request, the system (50) chooses and transmits to the client (60) a pointer pointing to a server cluster (30) whose associated available capacity exceeds a first threshold value and whose client connection quality exceeds a second threshold value.