GLOBAL DOCUMENT ACCOMMODATION SYSTEM USING SERVERS FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF EXPANDED DEVELOPED CONTENTS.

摘要

Distributed hosting system that works in a computer network (14) in which the users of client machines (10) communicate with a content provider server (13), the system comprising: a routine to modify (54) so less an embedded object URL of a basic markup language document (28) corresponding to a web page, to include a host name inserted at the beginning of a domain name and path; a group of content servers (36), other than the content provider server (12), available to host at least one embedded object (30) corresponding at least to the URL of the embedded object of the web page, respectively, being Normally hosted at least this embedded object (30) by the content provider server (12); and at least one first level name server (38) that provides, in operation, a first level domain name server (DNS) translation; in which, in response to the requests for the web page generated by the client machines (10), the basic document (28) that includes at least the modified embedded object URL, is served from the content provider's server ( 12), and at least the embedded object identified by the modified embedded object URL, at least, is served from a given content server of the content server group (36) indicated by the first level name server ( 38).