CN102546763B

CN102546763B - Method, device, equipment and system for distributing content providing equipments

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Publication number: CN102546763B
Application number: CN201110428257.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 朱魏; 周在保
Original assignee: Shanghai Synacast Media Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Synacast Media Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2011-12-19
Filing date: 2011-12-19
Publication date: 2015-05-13
Anticipated expiration: 2031-12-19
Also published as: CN102546763A

Abstract

The invention aims to provide a method, a device, equipment and a system for distributing content providing equipments. According to the scheme provided by the invention, the content transmission speed information of at least one content providing equipment which respectively provides content download service for content demand equipments in a network zone is obtained; content providing equipments which provide content download service for the content demand equipments are distributed for the network zone according to the content transmission speed information. Compared with the prior art, the invention has the following advantage that: the content demand equipments in the network zone after distribution can obtain better content download experience.

Description

For distributing the method for content providing, device, equipment and system

Technical field

The present invention relates to field of computer technology, particularly relating to a kind of method, device, equipment and system for distributing content providing.

Background technology

In prior art, in order to provide content downloading services to user, content supplier needs to distribute the region that its service equipment is served.

But because network environment is comparatively complicated, network allocation mode of the prior art, often because of factors such as such as network connection, network type, Virtual network operators, affects content downloading services and experiences.

Summary of the invention

The object of this invention is to provide a kind of method, device, equipment and system for distributing content providing.

According to an aspect of the present invention, provide a kind of in the network device for distributing the method for content providing, wherein, the method comprises the following steps:

A obtains content transmission speed information when at least one content providing provides content downloading services respectively to the content requirements equipment in a network area;

B according to described content transmission speed information, for the described network area content requirements equipment distributed wherein provides the content providing of content downloading services.

According to another aspect of the present invention, additionally provide a kind of method of distributing content providing in content providing for auxiliary network equipment, wherein, the method comprises the following steps:

A obtains content transmission speed information when providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in one or more network area;

Described content transmission speed information is sent to the described network equipment by B, determines that this content providing needs the network area be dispensed to for the described network equipment according to described content transmission speed information.

According to a further aspect of the invention, additionally provide a kind of equipment distributor for distributing content providing, wherein, this equipment distributor comprises:

First Speed acquisition device, for obtaining content transmission speed information when at least one content providing provides content downloading services respectively to the content requirements equipment in a network area;

First distributor, for according to described content transmission speed information, for the described network area content requirements equipment distributed wherein provides the content providing of content downloading services.

According to a further aspect of the invention, additionally provide a kind of servicing unit distributing content providing for auxiliary network equipment, wherein, this servicing unit comprises:

Second speed acquisition device, for obtaining content transmission speed information when providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in one or more network area;

According to described content transmission speed information, second dispensing device, for described content transmission speed information is sent to the described network equipment, determines that content providing belonging to described servicing unit needs the network area be dispensed to for the described network equipment.

Compared with prior art, the present invention has the following advantages: 1) can reference content transmission speed information come for content providing is distributed in network area, make the content requirements equipment distributed in rear network area can obtain good content downloading experience, bad problem is experienced in the download service that minimizing causes because of factors such as such as network connection, network type, Virtual network operators; 2) content downloading services can not only be provided to subscriber equipment, content downloading services can also be provided between servers, improve efficiency of service; 3) when the current content providing distributed in network area all cannot provide better download service, other guide can be selected to provide equipment, distribute to network area.

Accompanying drawing explanation

By reading the detailed description done non-limiting example done with reference to the following drawings, other features, objects and advantages of the present invention will become more obvious:

Fig. 1 is the method flow diagram for distributing content providing of one aspect of the invention;

Fig. 2 is the method flow diagram for distributing content providing of a preferred embodiment of the invention;

Fig. 3 is the structural representation of the equipment distributor for distributing content providing of one aspect of the invention;

Fig. 4 is the structural representation of the equipment distributor for distributing content providing of a preferred embodiment of the invention.

In accompanying drawing, same or analogous Reference numeral represents same or analogous parts.

Embodiment

Below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, the present invention is described in further detail.

Fig. 1 is the method flow diagram for distributing content providing of one aspect of the invention.Method according to the present invention comprises step S11 and step S12.Wherein, the method realizes mainly through the network equipment.The described network equipment includes but not limited to the server group that single network server, multiple webserver form or the cloud be made up of a large amount of computer or the webserver based on cloud computing (Cloud Computing), wherein, cloud computing is the one of Distributed Calculation, the super virtual machine be made up of a group loosely-coupled computer collection.Wherein, the network residing for the described network equipment includes but not limited to the Internet, wide area network, metropolitan area network, local area network (LAN), VPN etc.

It should be noted that, the described network equipment is only citing, and other network equipments that are existing or that may occur from now on or network, as being applicable to the present invention, within also should being included in scope, and are contained in this with way of reference.

In step s 11, the network equipment obtains content transmission speed information when at least one content providing provides content downloading services respectively to the content requirements equipment in a network area.

Wherein, content providing includes but not limited to the server that can provide content downloading services to other equipment; Wherein, this server includes but not limited to the server group of single network server or multiple webserver composition.

Wherein, content requirements equipment includes but not limited to any equipment needing downloading contents; Preferably described content requirements equipment comprises following at least one kind equipment: the server that 1) can provide content downloading services to other equipment; 2) subscriber equipment, preferably, described subscriber equipment includes but not limited to computer, smart mobile phone, PDA, IPTV etc.

It should be noted that, an equipment can be content providing and content requirements equipment simultaneously.Such as, server as content providing, while providing content downloading services to other equipment, can as content requirements equipment, by other equipment downloading contents.

Preferably, the communication between the network equipment, content providing and content requirements equipment is based on CDN (Content Delivery Network); More preferably, communication between the network equipment, content providing and content requirements equipment is the hybrid network based on CDN and P2P.

Preferably, network area includes but not limited to the region that address information Network Based divides; Such as, using region identical for front 3 sections of IP addresses as a network area etc.

Wherein, content transmission speed information includes but not limited to that content providing is to velocity information during content requirements device transmission downloading contents; Preferably, content transmission speed information includes but not limited to following at least one item: 1) content providing is to average content transmission speed during one or more content requirements device transmission downloading contents; 2) content providing is to momentary contents transmission speed during one or more content requirements device transmission downloading contents.

Particularly, the mode of content transmission speed information that the network equipment obtains when at least one content providing provides content downloading services respectively to the content requirements equipment in a network area includes but not limited to:

1) network equipment obtains local pre-stored, or, the content transmission speed information that other equipment provide.

2) network equipment obtains the content transmission speed information that content providing provides.Preferably, content providing obtains content transmission speed information when it provides content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in one or more network area; And described content transmission speed information is sent to the described network equipment, in following step S12, determine that this content providing need be dispensed to network area according to described content transmission speed information for the network equipment.Then the network equipment carries out sorting-out in statistics by the information sent each content providing, obtains content transmission speed information when each content providing provides content downloading services respectively to the content requirements equipment in a network area.

Such as, CDN comprises 3 provide Edge Server from content downloading services to subscriber equipment Server1, Server2 and Server3, then for each in these 3 Edge Servers, when it provides content downloading services to a subscriber equipment, namely add up it carries out average content transmission speed from content delivery to this subscriber equipment, and the IP address of this average content transmission speed and this subscriber equipment is sent to the network equipment.The IP address of the average content transmission speed that these 3 Edge Servers that the network equipment obtains in a predetermined amount of time send and subscriber equipment is as shown in table 1 below:

Edge Server	Average content transmission speed (kb/s)	The IP address of subscriber equipment
			Server1	149	192.168.5.146
Server1	207	192.168.5.2
			Server2	51	192.168.5.18
Server1	67	192.168.45.201
			Server2	105	192.168.45.21
Server3	271	192.168.45.32
			Server2	98	192.168.5.24
Server3	27	192.168.5.47

Table 1

The equipment that then network equipment is identical according to first three section, IP address belongs to the pre-defined rule in consolidated network region, and obtaining Server1, Server2 and Server3 to first three section of IP address is that subscriber equipment in the network area Part_1 of " 192.168.5 " provides average content transmission speed during content downloading services as shown in table 2 below:

Edge Server	Average content transmission speed (kb/s)
		Server1	149，207
Server2	51，98
		Server3	27

Table 2

Same, the network equipment can obtain Server1, Server2 and Server3 to first three section of IP address be subscriber equipment in the network area Part_2 of " 192.168.45 " content downloading services is provided time average content transmission speed.

3) network equipment obtains the content transmission speed information that content requirements equipment provides.Preferably, content requirements equipment obtains by content transmission speed information when providing the content providing downloading contents of content downloading services to it; And the equipment identification information of the content providing of described content transmission speed information, pre-acquiring and the IP address of self are sent to the network equipment.Then the network equipment is according to the IP address information of content requirements equipment, determine content requirements equipment belonging network region, then for each network area, the network equipment adds up content transmission speed information when each content providing provides content downloading services respectively to the content requirements equipment in this network area.

Such as, the network equipment receives the content transmission speed information during downloading contents of multiple subscriber equipment and the transmission of multiple server to other node request downloading contents in CDN and P2P hybrid network, to the equipment identification information of content providing and the IP address of self that self provide content downloading services, then whenever receiving the information of a subscriber equipment or server transmission, the network equipment is according to the IP address of subscriber equipment or server, determine its belonging network region, and according to its equipment identification information fed back and content transmission speed information, upgrade content transmission speed information when content providing corresponding to this equipment identification information provides content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in this network area.

4) the content transmission speed information that the network equipment provides in conjunction with the content transmission speed information of local pre-stored, other equipment content transmission speed information, content requirements equipment provide and/or the content transmission speed information that content providing provides, obtain the content transmission speed information to needing to distribute when content providing network area provides content downloading services.

It should be noted that, above-mentioned citing is only and technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention, those skilled in the art should understand that, the implementation of content transmission speed information when at least one content providing of any acquisition provides content downloading services respectively to the content requirements equipment in a network area, all should be within the scope of the present invention.

Then, in step s 12, the network equipment according to content transmission speed information, for the content providing that content requirements equipment wherein provides content downloading services is distributed in network area.

Particularly, the network equipment is according to content transmission speed information, and the content requirements equipment distributed wherein for network area provides the mode of the content providing of content downloading services to include but not limited to:

1) network equipment is according to content transmission speed information, selects one or more content providing by least one content providing described, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area.Wherein, a content providing provides content transmission speed during content downloading services higher to the content requirements equipment in network area, and by this content providing, the content requirements equipment be chosen as in this network area provides the possibility of the content providing of content downloading services higher in network equipment selection.

Such as, the content transmission speed information that the network equipment obtains in step s 11 is as shown in table 2, then the network equipment is asked on average to the average content transmission speed of each Edge Server respectively, the overall average transmission speed obtaining Server1 is 178kb/s, the overall average transmission speed of Server2 is the overall average transmission speed of 74.5kb/s, Server3 is 27kb/s; Then the network equipment selects the Server1 that overall average transmission speed is the highest, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area Part_1.

Again such as, the content transmission speed information that the network equipment obtains in step s 11 is as shown in table 2, then the network equipment is asked on average the average content transmission speed of each Edge Server respectively, select overall average transmission speed higher than Server1 and Server2 of predetermined threshold 70kb/s, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area Part_1.

It should be noted that, above-mentioned citing is only and technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention, those skilled in the art should understand that, any according to content transmission speed information, one or more content providing is selected by least one content providing described, as the implementation providing the content providing of content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area, all should be within the scope of the present invention.

2) when there is content transmission speed information at least one content providing described and meeting the content providing of predetermined speed condition, it is one or more that described content transmission speed information meets in the content providing of predetermined speed condition by the network equipment, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area.Which will be described in detail in embodiment illustrated in fig. 2 follow-up.

It should be noted that, above-mentioned citing is only and technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention, those skilled in the art should understand that, any according to content transmission speed information, for the network area content requirements equipment distributed wherein provides the implementation of the content providing of content downloading services, all should be within the scope of the present invention.

Need to further illustrate, the network equipment can perform above-mentioned steps S11 and step S12 respectively to multiple network area, to be respectively the content providing that each network area content requirements equipment distributed wherein provides content downloading services.Further, for a network area, the network equipment can repeatedly repeated execution of steps S11 and step S12, to be more newly assigned to the content providing of this network area.In addition, before network equipment step S11, the network equipment or other equipment can based on human configuration, the method for salary distribution of Stochastic choice or other prior aries, for each network area content requirements equipment distributed wherein provides the content providing of content downloading services.

As one of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, method of the present invention also comprises step S31, step S13, step S14, step S15, step S16, and, step S32 or step S23 and 24.

In step S31, content requirements equipment sends the first download request information to the described network equipment, and wherein, this first download request packets of information is containing the network address information of this content requirements equipment.

Then, in step s 13, the network equipment receives the first download request information from content requirements equipment.

Then, in step S14, the network equipment, according to the network address information of described content requirements equipment, determines this network area belonging to content requirements equipment.

Particularly, the network equipment obtains network address information by the first download request information, and according to the network area division rule of pre-determining, determines the network area described in content requirements equipment of this network address information.

Such as, network address information is IP address 192.168.5.2, then the network equipment is in the IP address field of pre-determining and the corresponding relation storehouse of network area, and it is Part_1 that inquiry obtains the network area corresponding with first three section " 192.168.5 " of IP address 192.168.5.2.

It should be noted that, above-mentioned citing is only and technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention, those skilled in the art should understand that, any network address information according to described content requirements equipment, determine the implementation of this network area belonging to content requirements equipment, all should be within the scope of the present invention.

Then, in step S15, the network equipment obtains the equipment identification information distributing to one or more content providing in the content providing in described content requirements equipment belonging network region.

Particularly, the network equipment obtains the equipment identification information that the full content distributing this network area provides equipment; Or network equipment, by modes such as such as Stochastic choice, according to the order of sequence selections, selects the equipment identification information of part content providing.Wherein, this equipment identification information includes but not limited to any information that can be used in identifying content providing, such as, and the IP address, predetermined sequence number etc. of content providing.

It should be noted that, the network equipment can perform step S11 and step S12 before step S31, or, after the network equipment determines network area in step S14, perform step S11 and step S12 for distributing content providing in this network area.

Then, in step s 16, the equipment identification information of acquisition is sent to content requirements equipment by the network equipment, or, first download request information is sent to the content providing corresponding respectively with each equipment identification information, provide content downloading services to enable the one or more content providing distributing to described network area to this content requirements equipment.

When the equipment identification information of acquisition is sent to content requirements equipment by the network equipment, in step s 32, content requirements equipment receives one or more equipment identification informations of network equipment feedback, to download required content by least one in one or more content providing corresponding respectively with this one or more equipment identification information.

Particularly, each foundation in one or more content providing that one or more equipment identification informations that content requirements equipment and the network equipment feed back are corresponding respectively communicates, to download required content by each content providing.Or content requirements equipment selects at least one content providing by this one or more content providing, download required content; Wherein, content requirements equipment can adopt multiple choices mode, as Stochastic choice, test transmission speed select the highest content providing of speed, select to provide the content providing etc. of the content of current needs.

When the first download request information is sent to the content providing corresponding respectively with each equipment identification information by the network equipment, in step S23, content providing receives the first download request information that the network equipment sends, described content requirements equipment; In step s 24 which, content providing, according to described first download request information, provides content downloading services to described content requirements equipment.

Preferably, when the downloading contents of the first download request information request does not exist, content providing provides equipment to send request the second download request information downloading this downloading contents to other guide, to be provided equipment to obtain required content by other guide, is supplied to content requirements equipment.

Such as, Edge Server Server1 in CDN determines that the video of the first download request information request does not exist in home server, then it is to this local non-existent content of its parent server request, if parent server determines that it does not comprise this content yet, then further to more parent server request, until certain server determines that it comprises this content, and be supplied to Server1, till being supplied to subscriber equipment to enable Server1.

It should be noted that, above-mentioned citing is only and technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention, those skilled in the art should understand that, when any downloading contents when the first download request information request does not exist, provide equipment to send request the second download request information downloading this downloading contents to other guide, obtain required content to be provided equipment by other guide, be supplied to the implementation of content requirements equipment, all should be within the scope of the present invention.

Method of the present invention, can reference content transmission speed information come for content providing is distributed in network area, make the content requirements equipment distributed in rear network area can obtain good content downloading experience, bad problem is experienced in the download service that minimizing causes because of factors such as such as network connection, network type, Virtual network operators.In addition, in the present invention, content downloading services can not only be provided to subscriber equipment, content downloading services can also be provided between servers, improve efficiency of service.

Fig. 2 is the method flow diagram for distributing content providing of a preferred embodiment of the invention.The method of the present embodiment comprises step S11 and step S12, and wherein, step S12 comprises step S121 further.

Step S11 is described in detail with reference to the embodiment shown in FIG. 1, does not repeat them here.

Then, in step S121, when providing at least one content providing of content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in network area, there is content transmission speed information when meeting the content providing of predetermined speed condition, it is one or more that described content transmission speed information meets in the content providing of predetermined speed condition by the network equipment, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area.

Wherein, the condition that the content transmission speed information that described predetermined speed condition comprises the content providing that can be assigned to network area should meet.Preferably, predetermined speed condition includes but not limited to: 1) when content transmission speed information comprises average content transmission speed, and this average content transmission speed is higher than the first predetermined speed threshold value; 2) when content transmission speed information comprises average content transmission speed, this average content transmission speed is higher than the second predetermined speed threshold value, and, average content transmission speed is positioned at the content providing of the average content transmission speed top N of each content providing, wherein, N is predetermined value; 3) when content transmission speed information comprises one or more momentary contents transmission speed, all or part of higher than the 3rd predetermined speed threshold value in this one or more momentary contents transmission speed; 4) when content transmission speed information comprises one or more momentary contents transmission speed, the speed of average gained is asked for higher than the 4th predetermined speed threshold value etc. to this one or more momentary contents transmission speed; 5) when content transmission speed information comprises average content transmission speed and momentary contents transmission speed, average content transmission speed is higher than the 5th predetermined speed threshold value, and momentary contents transmission speed is all higher than the 6th predetermined speed threshold value etc.It should be noted that, above-mentioned citing is only and technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention, those skilled in the art should understand that, the condition that any content transmission speed information comprising the content providing that can be assigned to network area should meet, all should be included in the scope of predetermined speed condition of the present invention.

Particularly, when providing at least one content providing of content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in network area, there is content transmission speed information when meeting the content providing of predetermined speed condition, the full content that described content transmission speed information meets predetermined speed condition is provided equipment by the network equipment, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area.Or the network equipment selects wherein one or more content providing, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area; Wherein, the network equipment can adopt multiple choices mode, content providing etc. as the highest in Stochastic choice content providing, selection average content transmission speed or momentary contents transmission speed.

Such as, what obtain in step S11 provides the content transmission speed information of the content edge server of content downloading services as shown in table 2 to the content requirements equipment in the Part_1 of network area, predetermined speed condition comprises overall average transmission speed higher than 150kb/s, then the network equipment is asked on average to the average content transmission speed of each Edge Server respectively, the overall average transmission speed obtaining Server1 is 178kb/s, the overall average transmission speed of Server2 is the overall average transmission speed of 74.5kb/s, Server3 is 27kb/s; Then the network equipment selects overall average transmission speed higher than the Server1 of 150kb/s, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area Part_1.

It should be noted that, above-mentioned citing is only and technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention, those skilled in the art should understand that, any when providing at least one content providing of content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in network area, there is content transmission speed information when meeting the content providing of predetermined speed condition, what described content transmission speed information met in the content providing of predetermined speed condition is one or more, as the implementation providing the content providing of content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area, all should be within the scope of the present invention.

As one of the preferred version of the present embodiment, step S12 also comprises step S122: when there is not content transmission speed information and meeting the content providing of predetermined speed condition, the network equipment is based on predetermined selective rule, select other at least one content providing, as at least one content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area.

Wherein, predetermined selective rule comprises any for selecting to provide to the content requirements equipment in network area with fast speed the rule of content downloading services.Preferably, described predetermined selective rule, with reference to following at least one factor, selects other at least one content providing described:

1) the network distance information between alternative content providing and described network area.Preferably, network distance information is determined based on factors such as such as IP address, routing iinformations between content providing and described network area.

Wherein, alternative content providing comprises the current other guide distributed to beyond this network area provides equipment; Preferably, alternative content providing comprises the content providing distributing to the network area adjacent with this network area, or, comprise predetermined and be not yet assigned to one or more content providing of this network area.

Particularly, the network equipment can obtain local pre-stored or network distance information that other equipment provide; Or the network equipment obtains IP address, the routing iinformation etc. between the two of such as content providing and network area, and determines network distance information between the two.Wherein, network distance information between a content providing and described network area is nearer, then the network equipment selects this content providing to provide the possibility of the content providing of content downloading services higher as to the content requirements equipment in this network area.

Such as, the IP address field of network area is 192.168.4.XXX, wherein, " XXX " represents arbitrary three natural numbers, the IP address of alternative 2 content providing is respectively 192.168.5.124 and 192.2.57.4, when then the network equipment obtains the IP address field of network area and above-mentioned two IP addresses with binary representation, number of characters consecutive identical by first is respectively 22 and 8, then the network equipment is using the inverse 0.045 and 0.125 of 22 and 8 as 2 network distance information between content providing and network area, and the IP address selecting network distance nearer is the content providing of 192.168.5.124, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in this network area.

It should be noted that, above-mentioned citing is only and technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention, those skilled in the art should understand that, any according to the network distance information between alternative content providing and described network area, select other at least one content providing, as the implementation providing at least one content providing of content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area, all should be within the scope of the present invention.

2) network of network attaching information residing for alternative content providing and described network area.

Wherein, described network home information includes but not limited to the information that can be used in marked network operator.Particularly, to belong to degree of closeness higher for network of network residing for the content providing and network area, although the communication speed between the network that different but these two Virtual network operators of as identical in Virtual network operator or Virtual network operator provide is more high, then the network equipment selects this content providing to provide the possibility of the content providing of content downloading services higher as to the content requirements equipment in this network area.

It should be noted that, above-mentioned citing is only and technical scheme of the present invention is described better, but not limitation of the present invention, those skilled in the art should understand that, any when there is not content transmission speed information and meeting the content providing of predetermined speed condition, based on predetermined selective rule, select other at least one content providing, as the implementation providing at least one content providing of content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area, as while grid of reference range information and network home information carry out chosen content equipment etc. be provided, all should be within the scope of the present invention.

As one of the preferred version of the present embodiment, the present invention is further comprising the steps of: repeating said steps S11 and step S12, until there is the content providing that content transmission speed information meets predetermined speed condition at least one content providing described in step S11.

Particularly, the content providing that content transmission speed information meets predetermined speed condition whether is there is at least one content providing described in network equipment determining step S11, and when judging that there is content transmission speed information meets the content providing of predetermined speed condition, perform step S121, when judging that there is content transmission speed information meets the content providing of predetermined speed condition, perform step S122.Further, performing step S122 and after certain interval of time, again performing step S11 and step S12, until there is the content providing that content transmission speed information meets predetermined speed condition at least one content providing described in step S11.

In the present embodiment, can distribute for network area the content providing that better download service can be provided; Further, when the current content providing distributed in network area all cannot provide better download service, other guide can be selected to provide equipment, distribute to network area.

Fig. 3 is the structural representation of the equipment distributor for distributing content providing of one aspect of the invention.Equipment distributor of the present invention is contained in the network equipment, and equipment distributor of the present invention comprises First Speed acquisition device 11 and the first distributor 12.

First Speed acquisition device 11 obtains content transmission speed information when at least one content providing provides content downloading services respectively to the content requirements equipment in a network area.

Particularly, the mode of content transmission speed information that First Speed acquisition device 11 obtains when at least one content providing provides content downloading services respectively to the content requirements equipment in a network area includes but not limited to:

1) First Speed acquisition device 11 obtains local pre-stored, or, the content transmission speed information that other equipment provide.

2) First Speed acquisition device 11 obtains the content transmission speed information that content providing provides.Preferably, content providing comprises second speed acquisition device (not shown) and the second dispensing device (not shown).Second speed acquisition device obtains content transmission speed information when it provides content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in one or more network area; Described content transmission speed information is sent to the described network equipment by the second dispensing device, determines that this content providing needs the network area be dispensed to for the first distributor 12 according to described content transmission speed information.Then First Speed acquisition device 11 carries out sorting-out in statistics by the information sent each content providing, obtains content transmission speed information when each content providing provides content downloading services respectively to the content requirements equipment in a network area.

Such as, CDN comprises 3 provide Edge Server from content downloading services to subscriber equipment Server1, Server2 and Server3, then for each in these 3 Edge Servers, when it provides content downloading services to a subscriber equipment, second speed acquisition device wherein adds up it carries out average content transmission speed from content delivery to this subscriber equipment, and the IP address of this average content transmission speed and this subscriber equipment is sent to the network equipment by the second dispensing device wherein.The IP address of the average content transmission speed that these 3 Edge Servers that the network equipment obtains in a predetermined amount of time send and subscriber equipment is as shown in table 3 below:

Table 3

The equipment that then First Speed acquisition device 11 is identical according to first three section, IP address belongs to the pre-defined rule in consolidated network region, and obtaining Server1, Server2 and Server3 to first three section of IP address is that subscriber equipment in the network area Part_1 of " 192.168.5 " provides average content transmission speed during content downloading services as shown in table 4 below:

Table 4

Same, First Speed acquisition device 11 can obtain Server1, Server2 and Server3 to first three section of IP address be subscriber equipment in the network area Part_2 of " 192.168.45 " content downloading services is provided time average content transmission speed.

3) First Speed acquisition device 11 obtains the content transmission speed information that content requirements equipment provides.Preferably, content requirements equipment obtains by content transmission speed information when providing the content providing downloading contents of content downloading services to it; And the equipment identification information of the content providing of described content transmission speed information, pre-acquiring and the IP address of self are sent to the network equipment.Then First Speed acquisition device 11 is according to the IP address information of content requirements equipment, determine content requirements equipment belonging network region, then for each network area, First Speed acquisition device 11 adds up content transmission speed information when each content providing provides content downloading services respectively to the content requirements equipment in this network area.

Such as, the network equipment receives the content transmission speed information during downloading contents of multiple subscriber equipment and the transmission of multiple server to other node request downloading contents in CDN and P2P hybrid network, to the equipment identification information of content providing and the IP address of self that self provide content downloading services, then whenever receiving the information of a subscriber equipment or server transmission, First Speed acquisition device 11 is according to the IP address of subscriber equipment or server, determine its belonging network region, and according to its equipment identification information fed back and content transmission speed information, upgrade content transmission speed information when content providing corresponding to this equipment identification information provides content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in this network area.

4) the content transmission speed information that First Speed acquisition device 11 provides in conjunction with the content transmission speed information of local pre-stored, other equipment content transmission speed information, content requirements equipment provide and/or the content transmission speed information that content providing provides, obtain the content transmission speed information to needing to distribute when content providing network area provides content downloading services.

Then, the first distributor 12 according to content transmission speed information, for the content providing that content requirements equipment wherein provides content downloading services is distributed in network area.

Particularly, the first distributor 12 is according to content transmission speed information, and the content requirements equipment distributed wherein for network area provides the mode of the content providing of content downloading services to include but not limited to:

1) the first distributor 12 comprises the first choice device (not shown).First choice device, according to content transmission speed information, selects one or more content providing by least one content providing described, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area.Wherein, a content providing provides content transmission speed during content downloading services higher to the content requirements equipment in network area, and by this content providing, the content requirements equipment be chosen as in this network area provides the possibility of the content providing of content downloading services higher in the first choice device selection.

Such as, the content transmission speed information that First Speed acquisition device 11 obtains is as shown in table 4, then the first choice device is asked on average to the average content transmission speed of each Edge Server respectively, the overall average transmission speed obtaining Server1 is 178kb/s, the overall average transmission speed of Server2 is the overall average transmission speed of 74.5kb/s, Server3 is 27kb/s; Then the Server1 that overall average transmission speed is the highest selected by the first choice device, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area Part_1.

Again such as, the content transmission speed information that First Speed acquisition device 11 obtains is as shown in table 2, then the first choice device is asked on average the average content transmission speed of each Edge Server respectively, select overall average transmission speed higher than Server1 and Server2 of predetermined threshold 70kb/s, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area Part_1.

2) when there is content transmission speed information at least one content providing described and meeting the content providing of predetermined speed condition, it is one or more that described content transmission speed information meets in the content providing of predetermined speed condition by the first distributor 12, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area.Which will be described in detail in embodiment illustrated in fig. 4 follow-up.

Need to further illustrate, First Speed acquisition device 11 and the first distributor 12 can distinguish executable operations to multiple network areas, to be respectively the content providing that each network area content requirements equipment distributed wherein provides content downloading services.Further, First Speed acquisition device 11 and the first distributor 12 repeatedly can repeat operation to a network area, to be more newly assigned to the content providing of this network area.In addition, before First Speed acquisition device 11 executable operations, the network equipment or other equipment can based on human configuration, the method for salary distribution of Stochastic choice or other prior aries, for each network area content requirements equipment distributed wherein provides the content providing of content downloading services.

As one of the preferred embodiments of the present invention, equipment distributor of the present invention also comprises, first receiving device (not shown), area determining device (not shown), mark acquisition device (not shown) and the first dispensing device (not shown); Content requirements device comprises the 4th dispensing device (not shown) and communicator (not shown); Content providing device comprises the second receiving system (not shown) and service providing apparatus (not shown).

The 4th dispensing device in content requirements equipment sends the first download request information to the network equipment, and wherein, this first download request packets of information is containing the network address information of this content requirements equipment.

Then, the first receiving device in the network equipment receives the first download request information from content requirements equipment.

Then, area determining device, according to the network address information of described content requirements equipment, determines this network area belonging to content requirements equipment.

Particularly, area determining device obtains network address information by the first download request information, and according to the network area division rule of pre-determining, determines the network area described in content requirements equipment of this network address information.

Such as, network address information is IP address 192.168.5.2, then area determining device is in the IP address field of pre-determining and the corresponding relation storehouse of network area, and it is Part_1 that inquiry obtains the network area corresponding with first three section " 192.168.5 " of IP address 192.168.5.2.

Then, identify acquisition device and obtain the equipment identification information distributing to one or more content providing in the content providing in described content requirements equipment belonging network region.

Particularly, identify acquisition device and obtain the equipment identification information that the full content distributing this network area provides equipment; Or mark acquisition device, by modes such as such as Stochastic choice, according to the order of sequence selections, selects the equipment identification information of part content providing.Wherein, this equipment identification information includes but not limited to any information that can be used in identifying content providing, such as, and the IP address, predetermined sequence number etc. of content providing.

It should be noted that, First Speed acquisition device 11 and the first distributor 12 can before the 4th dispensing device executable operations, or, after area determining device determines network area, First Speed acquisition device 11 and the first distributor 12 executable operations, for content providing is distributed in this network area, obtain for mark acquisition device the equipment identification information distributing to the content providing of this network area.

Then, the equipment identification information of acquisition is sent to content requirements equipment by the first dispensing device, or, first download request information is sent to the content providing corresponding respectively with each equipment identification information, provide content downloading services to enable the one or more content providing distributing to described network area to this content requirements equipment.

When the equipment identification information of acquisition is sent to content requirements equipment by the first dispensing device, communicator in content requirements equipment receives one or more equipment identification informations that the first dispensing device sends, to download required content by least one in one or more content providing corresponding respectively with this one or more equipment identification information.

Particularly, each foundation in one or more content providing that one or more equipment identification informations that communicator and the network equipment feed back are corresponding respectively communicates, to download required content by each content providing.Or communicator selects at least one content providing by this one or more content providing, download required content; Wherein, communicator can adopt multiple choices mode, as Stochastic choice, test transmission speed select the highest content providing of speed, select to provide the content providing etc. of the content of current needs.

When the first download request information is sent to the content providing corresponding respectively with each equipment identification information by the first dispensing device, the second receiving system in content providing receives the first download request information that the first dispensing device sends, described content requirements equipment; Then, service providing apparatus, according to described first download request information, provides content downloading services to described content requirements equipment.

Preferably, content providing device also comprises the 3rd dispensing device (not shown).When the downloading contents of the first download request information request does not exist, 3rd dispensing device provides equipment to send request the second download request information downloading this downloading contents to other guide, to be provided equipment to obtain required content by other guide, be supplied to content requirements equipment.

Such as, the 3rd dispensing device in Edge Server Server1 in CDN determines that the video of the first download request information request does not exist in home server, then the 3rd dispensing device is to this local non-existent content of parent server request of Server1, if parent server determines that it does not comprise this content yet, then further to more parent server request, until certain server determines that it comprises this content, and be supplied to Server1, till being supplied to subscriber equipment to enable the 3rd dispensing device.

Equipment distributor of the present invention, can reference content transmission speed information come for content providing is distributed in network area, make the content requirements equipment distributed in rear network area can obtain good content downloading experience, bad problem is experienced in the download service that minimizing causes because of factors such as such as network connection, network type, Virtual network operators.In addition, in the present invention, content downloading services can not only be provided to subscriber equipment, content downloading services can also be provided between servers, improve efficiency of service.

Fig. 4 is the structural representation of the equipment distributor for distributing content providing of a preferred embodiment of the invention.The equipment distributor of the present embodiment comprises First Speed acquisition device 11 and the equipment determining device 121 be contained in the first distributor 12.

First Speed acquisition device 11 is described in detail with reference to the embodiment shown in FIG. 3, does not repeat them here.

Then, when providing at least one content providing of content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in network area, there is content transmission speed information when meeting the content providing of predetermined speed condition, it is one or more that described content transmission speed information meets in the content providing of predetermined speed condition by equipment determining device 121, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area.

Particularly, when providing at least one content providing of content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in network area, there is content transmission speed information when meeting the content providing of predetermined speed condition, the full content that described content transmission speed information meets predetermined speed condition is provided equipment by equipment determining device 121, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area.Or equipment determining device 121 selects wherein one or more content providing, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area; Wherein, equipment determining device 121 can adopt multiple choices mode, content providing etc. as the highest in Stochastic choice content providing, selection average content transmission speed or momentary contents transmission speed.

Such as, what First Speed acquisition device 11 obtained provides the content transmission speed information of the content edge server of content downloading services as shown in table 4 to the content requirements equipment in the Part_1 of network area, predetermined speed condition comprises overall average transmission speed higher than 150kb/s, then equipment determining device 121 is asked on average to the average content transmission speed of each Edge Server respectively, the overall average transmission speed obtaining Server1 is 178kb/s, the overall average transmission speed of Server2 is the overall average transmission speed of 74.5kb/s, Server3 is 27kb/s; Then equipment determining device 121 selects overall average transmission speed higher than the Server1 of 150kb/s, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area Part_1.

As one of the preferred version of the present embodiment, first distributor 12 also comprises the second choice device: when there is not content transmission speed information and meeting the content providing of predetermined speed condition, second choice device is based on predetermined selective rule, select other at least one content providing, as at least one content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area.

Particularly, the second choice device can obtain local pre-stored or network distance information that other equipment provide; Or the second choice device obtains IP address, the routing iinformation etc. between the two of such as content providing and network area, and determines network distance information between the two.Wherein, network distance information between a content providing and described network area is nearer, then the second choice device selects this content providing to provide the possibility of the content providing of content downloading services higher as to the content requirements equipment in this network area.

Such as, the IP address field of network area is 192.168.4.XXX, wherein, " XXX " represents arbitrary three natural numbers, the IP address of alternative 2 content providing is respectively 192.168.5.124 and 192.2.57.4, when then the second choice device obtains the IP address field of network area and above-mentioned two IP addresses with binary representation, number of characters consecutive identical by first is respectively 22 and 8, then the second choice device is using the inverse 0.045 and 0.125 of 22 and 8 as 2 network distance information between content providing and network area, and the IP address selecting network distance nearer is the content providing of 192.168.5.124, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in this network area.

Wherein, described network home information includes but not limited to the information that can be used in marked network operator.Particularly, to belong to degree of closeness higher for network of network residing for the content providing and network area, although the communication speed between the network that different but these two Virtual network operators of as identical in Virtual network operator or Virtual network operator provide is more high, then the second choice device selects this content providing to provide the possibility of the content providing of content downloading services higher as to the content requirements equipment in this network area.

As one of the preferred version of the present embodiment, equipment distributor also comprises duplicating device (not shown).Duplicating device triggers First Speed acquisition device 11 and the first distributor 12, until there is at least one content providing affiliated in the explanation of First Speed acquisition device 11 content providing that content transmission speed information meets predetermined speed condition.

Particularly, duplicating device judges whether there is at least one content providing described in the explanation of First Speed acquisition device 11 content providing that content transmission speed information meets predetermined speed condition, and when judging that there is content transmission speed information meets the content providing of predetermined speed condition, trigger equipment determining device 121 executable operations, when judging that there is content transmission speed information meets the content providing of predetermined speed condition, trigger the second choice device executable operations.And, after second choice device executable operations a period of time, again trigger First Speed acquisition device 11 and the first distributor 12 executable operations, until there is at least one content providing described in the explanation of First Speed acquisition device 11 content providing that content transmission speed information meets predetermined speed condition.

To those skilled in the art, obviously the invention is not restricted to the details of above-mentioned one exemplary embodiment, and when not deviating from spirit of the present invention or essential characteristic, the present invention can be realized in other specific forms.Therefore, no matter from which point, all should embodiment be regarded as exemplary, and be nonrestrictive, scope of the present invention is limited by claims instead of above-mentioned explanation, and all changes be therefore intended in the implication of the equivalency by dropping on claim and scope are included in the present invention.Any Reference numeral in claim should be considered as the claim involved by limiting.In addition, obviously " comprising " one word do not get rid of other unit or step, odd number does not get rid of plural number.Multiple unit of stating in system claims or device also can be realized by software or hardware by a unit or device.First, second word such as grade is used for representing title, and does not represent any specific order.

Claims

1., in the network device for distributing a method for content providing, wherein, the method comprises the following steps:

B according to described content transmission speed information, for the described network area content requirements equipment distributed wherein provides the content providing of content downloading services;

Wherein, the method is further comprising the steps of:

-receive the first download request information from content requirements equipment, wherein, this first download request packets of information is containing the network address information of this content requirements equipment;

-according to the network address information of described content requirements equipment, determine this network area belonging to content requirements equipment;

-obtain the equipment identification information distributing to one or more content providing in the content providing in described content requirements equipment belonging network region;

-described equipment identification information is sent to described content requirements equipment, or, described first download request information is sent to the content providing that described equipment identification information is corresponding, provides content downloading services to enable the one or more content providing distributing to described network area to this content requirements equipment.

2. method according to claim 1, wherein, described step b comprises the following steps:

-according to described content transmission speed information, select one or more content providing by least one content providing described, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area.

3. method according to claim 1, wherein, described step b comprises the following steps:

When there is content transmission speed information at least one content providing described and meeting the content providing of predetermined speed condition in b1, what described content transmission speed information met in the content providing of predetermined speed condition is one or more, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area.

4. method according to claim 3, wherein, described step b is further comprising the steps of:

When there is not content transmission speed information and meeting the content providing of predetermined speed condition in b2, based on predetermined selective rule, select other at least one content providing, as at least one content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area.

5. according to the method described in claim 4, wherein, described predetermined selective rule, with reference to following at least one factor, selects other at least one content providing described:

-network distance information between alternative content providing and described network area;

Network of network attaching information residing for-alternative content providing and described network area.

6. the method according to claim 4 or 5, wherein, the method is further comprising the steps of:

, until there is the content providing that content transmission speed information meets predetermined speed condition at least one content providing described in-repeating said steps a and b.

7. method according to any one of claim 1 to 5, wherein, described content requirements equipment comprises following at least one kind equipment:

-server of content downloading services can be provided to other equipment;

-subscriber equipment.

8. for distributing an equipment distributor for content providing, wherein, this equipment distributor comprises:

First distributor, for according to described content transmission speed information, for the described network area content requirements equipment distributed wherein provides the content providing of content downloading services;

Wherein, this equipment distributor also comprises:

First receiving device, for receiving the first download request information from content requirements equipment, wherein, this first download request packets of information is containing the network address information of this content requirements equipment;

Area determining device, for the network address information according to described content requirements equipment, determines this network area belonging to content requirements equipment;

Mark acquisition device, for obtain distribute to described content requirements equipment belonging network region content providing in the equipment identification information of one or more content providing;

First dispensing device, for described equipment identification information is sent to described content requirements equipment, or, described first download request information is sent to the content providing that described equipment identification information is corresponding, provides content downloading services to enable the one or more content providing distributing to described network area to this content requirements equipment.

9. equipment distributor according to claim 8, wherein, described first distributor comprises:

First choice device, for according to described content transmission speed information, one or more content providing is selected, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area by least one content providing described.

10. equipment distributor according to claim 8, wherein, described first distributor comprises:

Equipment determining device, for when there is content transmission speed information at least one content providing described and meeting the content providing of predetermined speed condition, what described content transmission speed information met in the content providing of predetermined speed condition is one or more, as the content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area.

11. equipment distributors according to claim 10, wherein, described first distributor also comprises:

Second choice device, for when there is not content transmission speed information and meeting the content providing of predetermined speed condition, based on predetermined selective rule, select other at least one content providing, as at least one content providing providing content downloading services to the content requirements equipment in described network area.

12. according to the equipment distributor described in claim 11, and wherein, described predetermined selective rule, with reference to following at least one factor, selects other at least one content providing described:

13. equipment distributors according to claim 11 or 12, wherein, this equipment distributor also comprises:

Duplicating device, for triggering described First Speed acquisition device and described first distributor repeats operation, until there is the content providing that content transmission speed information meets predetermined speed condition at least one content providing described.

Equipment distributor according to any one of 14. according to Claim 8 to 12, wherein, described content requirements equipment comprises following at least one kind equipment:

-server of content downloading services can be provided to other equipment;

-subscriber equipment.

15. 1 kinds of network equipments, comprise the equipment distributor as described in item at least one in claim 8 to 14.

16. 1 kinds of systems, comprise the network equipment as claimed in claim 15 and content providing, and this content providing comprises servicing unit, and this servicing unit comprises:

17. systems according to claim 16, wherein, this servicing unit also comprises:

Second receiving system, for receiving the first download request information that the described network equipment sends, described content requirements equipment;

Service providing apparatus, for according to described first download request information, provides content downloading services to described content requirements equipment.

18. systems according to claim 17, wherein, this servicing unit also comprises:

3rd dispensing device, for when the downloading contents of described first download request information request does not exist, provides equipment to send request the second download request information downloading this downloading contents to other guide.