CPC H04L 65/611 (2022.05) [H04L 65/612 (2022.05); H04L 67/02 (2013.01)] | 9 Claims |
1. A method of delivering content to a client device in a network comprising a plurality of client devices, wherein said content comprises a sequence of segments, said method comprising:
i) receiving at a first network element one or more segments from a content server sent over multicast;
ii) receiving at the first network element a request for a segment from a client device, wherein the request comprises an HTTP GET request;
iii) responsive to the received request, sending by the first network element a HTTP HEAD request to the content server;
iv) receiving a response to the HTTP HEAD request at the first network element over unicast;
v) generating a segment comprising the header from the received response and a payload from one of the one or more received segments;
vi) sending the generated segment to the client device over unicast.
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