A control and communication infrastructure (CCI) for use in a wide area network wherein a plurality of interconnected machines operate a plurality of different applications having varying data transport requirements. Machines within a wide area distributed network agree on a namespace of data objects...http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US7149807?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7149807 - Control and communication infrastructure (CCI) for selecting a transport mechanism to transport data to one or more servers in a content delivery network based on the size of the data, together with frequency and loss tolerance with respect to transport of the data
