| US 7,502,858 B2 | ||
| Integrated point of presence server network | ||
| Ajit Kumar Gupta, Fremont, Calif. (US); Richard David Day, Mountain View, Calif. (US); and Eric Sven-Johan Swildens, Mountain View, Calif. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, Mass. (US) | ||
| Filed on May 07, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/141,194. | ||
| Application 10/141194 is a division of application No. 09/644927, filed on Aug. 23, 2000, granted, now 6,405,252. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2002/0152309 A1, Oct. 17, 2002 | ||
| This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer. | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 15/173 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 709—226 | 22 Claims |
| 1. A method for load balancing Web page content request traffic across a network of customer Web servers and Web cache servers,
comprising the steps of:
providing a plurality of customer Web servers;
wherein customer Web servers belonging to a customer_serve dynamic Web page content to requesting users;
wherein said Web cache servers serve static Web page content directly to requesting users;
performing load balancing among said customer Web servers for dynamic Web page content requests from requesting users;
wherein said customer Web server load balancing step simultaneously performs load balancing across customer Web servers belonging
to a plurality of customers;
performing load balancing among said Web cache servers for static Web page content requests from requesting users;
wherein a customer pays a fee to a service for use the plurality of Web cache servers and the load balancing among the Web
servers belonging to the customer performed by said customer Web server load balancing step; and
wherein said customer Web server load balancing step and said Web cache server load balancing step are performed on a common
name server.
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