Abstract: A method of redirecting content requests among content distribution network peers. In operation, a client sends a request for content to a content distribution network (CDN). When this CDN does not currently have the capacity to deliver the content, the CDN refers to one or more content distribution tables to see if the neighbor peers are able to provide this content. The content distribution table is populated at the time of distribution of the content. When the neighbor peer has this content, the request is redirected to the neighbor peer. In redirecting request, an address of the neighbor peer is appending to the previous address such that each peer receiving the request knows where the request came from and where it has been previously.

Abstract: A method of redirecting content requests among content distribution network peers. In operation, a client sends a request for content to a content distribution network (CDN). When this CDN does not currently have the capacity to deliver the content, the CDN refers to one or more content distribution tables to see if the neighbour peers are able to provide this content. The content distribution table is populated at the time of distribution of the content. When the neighbour peer has this content, the request is redirected to the neighbour peer. In redirecting request, an address of the neighbour peer is appending to the previous address such that each peer receiving the request knows where the request came from and where it has been previously.

Abstract: A framework for service personalization based upon a users personal profile is provided. The framework includes a method of providing service personalization (SP) in which a user agent identifies itself as being service personalization enabled to being a SP session. A SP engine assigns a unique identifier to the user agent for tagging all subsequent traffic from that subscriber. The SP engine establishes direct communications between the user agent and an appropriate entity for obtaining information on the location of the subscriber profile and derives personalization rules to form a personalization rule module that encodes criteria for performing personalization functions on user traffic. When a specific subscriber request for content is received, the SP engine invokes the personalization rules of the personalization rule module for application to content requested. It is important to note that the personalization rules can be invoked in one of four places, in two general categories.