Virtual Point of Presence for Localized Content Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
There is a need to provide local web content in different countries or locales without the significant investment required for setting up and maintaining physical data centers, while ensuring security and content protection from potentially malicious user actions.
Innovation Solution
A virtual point of presence (VPoP) is established by registering an IP prefix range, implementing proxy servers, geolocating users, and using network address translation to provide extended IP network addresses for content delivery, allowing for secure and localized content provision without physical data center presence in every locale.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If physical data centers are set up in different countries to provide local web content, then content localization and security are improved, but infrastructure investment and operational costs increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates virtual copies of data center functionality through virtualization technology. Virtual data center instances can be deployed across multiple geographic locations without requiring physical hardware in each location. These virtual instances replicate the security and content delivery capabilities of physical data centers while sharing underlying infrastructure resources, thereby maintaining content security and localization benefits while dramatically reducing infrastructure investment.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a universal infrastructure platform that can serve multiple countries and locales simultaneously. A single physical data center infrastructure is designed to host multiple virtual data centers that can deliver localized content to different geographic regions. This multi-functional approach allows the same infrastructure to provide content security and localization services across multiple markets without requiring separate physical facilities for each country.
2Speed
If physical data centers are established in new countries to provide local content, then content delivery performance is improved, but device complexity and maintenance burden increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple data center management functions into a unified virtualization platform. Instead of managing separate physical data centers in each country, the system combines control, monitoring, and resource allocation into a single centralized management interface. This consolidation maintains the ability to deliver content locally at high speed while reducing the overall complexity of managing distributed infrastructure across multiple locations.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a virtualization layer as an intermediary between the physical infrastructure and the distributed data center instances. This virtualization intermediary abstracts the complexity of managing multiple physical locations, providing standardized interfaces for deployment, monitoring, and maintenance. The intermediary layer handles the complexity of coordinating resources across geographic boundaries while presenting a simplified management view to operators.
3Object-affected harmful factors
If physical data centers are deployed globally to ensure content protection, then security against malicious user actions is improved, but the system becomes more vulnerable to user behavior changes in different locales
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic virtual data center instances that can be rapidly deployed, configured, and adapted to different geographic locales and user behavior patterns. Unlike static physical data centers, these virtual instances can be dynamically adjusted based on local security requirements and user characteristics. The system can quickly provision new virtual data centers in response to emerging security threats or changing user behaviors in different countries without the delays associated with physical infrastructure deployment.
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AI summary
A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for establishing a virtual point of presence or VPoP in a country or locale by registering an internet protocol (IP) prefix range for communication specific to the locale in a physical data center; implementing proxy servers on the data center that support the IP prefix range; geolocating users in the locale to the IP prefix range; network address translating inbound connections to the IP prefix range with IP addresses on the proxy servers to provide extended IP network addresses; and providing content to the users by the proxy servers on using the extended IP network addresses.