Origin and cache server cooperation for compute-intensive content delivery

    公开(公告)号:US11303720B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-12

    申请号:US16888202

    申请日:2020-05-29

    发明人: Byung K. Choi

    摘要: This document describes systems, methods and apparatus for locating an object and/or processed versions of that object in a CDN cache system. When a CDN server needs to send a forward request to an origin server to retrieve an object, the CDN server can append a ‘cache hint’ (sometimes referred to herein as a pointer or as ‘reverse cookie’) to its request. The cache hint preferably includes information that will be stored at the origin server and provided to other CDN servers that subsequently ask for the same object. Preferably the information is a pointer that will enable the object to be located within the CDN and/or enable the location of modified version of the object that have already been created and stored within the CDN.