Patents by Inventor Andrew F. Champagne
Andrew F. Champagne has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11792295Abstract: This patent document describes technology for providing real-time messaging and entity update services in a distributed proxy server network, such as a CDN. Uses include distributing real-time notifications about updates to data stored in and delivered by the network, with both high efficiency and locality of latency. The technology can be integrated into conventional caching proxy servers providing HTTP services, thereby leveraging their existing footprint in the Internet, their existing overlay network topologies and architectures, and their integration with existing traffic management components.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Matthew J. Stevens, Michael G. Merideth, Nil Alexandrov, Andrew F. Champagne, Brendan Coyle, Timothy Glynn, Mark A. Roman, Xin Xu
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Patent number: 11736586Abstract: A high-performance distributed ledger and transaction computing network fabric over which large numbers of transactions (involving the transformation, conversion or transfer of information or value) are processed concurrently in a scalable, reliable, secure and efficient manner. In one embodiment, the computing network fabric or “core” is configured to support a distributed blockchain network that organizes data in a manner that allows communication, processing and storage of blocks of the chain to be performed concurrently, with little synchronization, at very high performance and low latency, even when the transactions themselves originate from distant sources. This data organization relies on segmenting a transaction space within autonomous but cooperating computing nodes that are configured as a processing mesh. Each computing node typically is functionally-equivalent to all other nodes in the core.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: David C. Carver, Thomas Houman, Andrew F. Champagne, Vladimir Shtokman, Patrick Alexander Deegan, Ramanath Mallikarjuna
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Publication number: 20230239135Abstract: A high-performance distributed ledger and transaction computing network fabric over which large numbers of transactions (involving the transformation, conversion or transfer of information or value) are processed concurrently in a scalable, reliable, secure and efficient manner. In one embodiment, the computing network fabric or “core” is configured to support a distributed blockchain network that organizes data in a manner that allows communication, processing and storage of blocks of the chain to be performed concurrently, with little synchronization, at very high performance and low latency, even when the transactions themselves originate from distant sources. This data organization relies on segmenting a transaction space within autonomous but cooperating computing nodes that are configured as a processing mesh. Each computing node typically is functionally-equivalent to all other nodes in the core.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: David C. Carver, Andrew F. Champagne, Ramanath Mallikarjuna, Thomas Houman
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Patent number: 11677793Abstract: Stream-based data deduplication is provided in a multi-tenant shared infrastructure but without requiring “paired” endpoints having synchronized data dictionaries. Data objects processed by the dedupe functionality are treated as objects that can be fetched as needed. As such, a decoding peer does not need to maintain a symmetric library for the origin. Rather, if the peer does not have the chunks in cache that it needs, it follows a conventional content delivery network procedure to retrieve them. In this way, if dictionaries between pairs of sending and receiving peers are out-of-sync, relevant sections are then re-synchronized on-demand. The approach does not require that libraries maintained at a particular pair of sender and receiving peers are the same. Rather, the technique enables a peer, in effect, to “backfill” its dictionary on-the-fly. On-the-wire compression techniques are provided to reduce the amount of data transmitted between the peers.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Charles E. Gero, Andrew F. Champagne, F. Thomson Leighton
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Patent number: 11622001Abstract: A high-performance distributed ledger and transaction computing network fabric over which large numbers of transactions (involving the transformation, conversion or transfer of information or value) are processed concurrently in a scalable, reliable, secure and efficient manner. In one embodiment, the computing network fabric or “core” is configured to support a distributed blockchain network that organizes data in a manner that allows communication, processing and storage of blocks of the chain to be performed concurrently, with little synchronization, at very high performance and low latency, even when the transactions themselves originate from distant sources. This data organization relies on segmenting a transaction space within autonomous but cooperating computing nodes that are configured as a processing mesh. According to an aspect of this disclosure, the CDN edge network is then used to deliver receipts associated with transactions that are processed into the blockchain.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: David C. Carver, Andrew F. Champagne
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Publication number: 20230079178Abstract: This patent document describes technology for providing real-time messaging and entity update services in a distributed proxy server network, such as a CDN. Uses include distributing real-time notifications about updates to data stored in and delivered by the network, with both high efficiency and locality of latency. The technology can be integrated into conventional caching proxy servers providing HTTP services, thereby leveraging their existing footprint in the Internet, their existing overlay network topologies and architectures, and their integration with existing traffic management components.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Matthew J. Stevens, Michael G. Merideth, Nil Alexandrov, Andrew F. Champagne, Brendan Coyle, Timothy Glynn, Mark A. Roman, Xin Xu
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Patent number: 11606190Abstract: A high-performance distributed ledger and transaction computing network fabric over which large numbers of transactions (involving the transformation, conversion or transfer of information or value) are processed concurrently in a scalable, reliable, secure and efficient manner. In one embodiment, the computing network fabric or “core” is configured to support a distributed blockchain network that organizes data in a manner that allows communication, processing and storage of blocks of the chain to be performed concurrently, with little synchronization, at very high performance and low latency, even when the transactions themselves originate from distant sources. This data organization relies on segmenting a transaction space within autonomous but cooperating computing nodes that are configured as a processing mesh. Each computing node typically is functionally-equivalent to all other nodes in the core.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: David C. Carver, Andrew F. Champagne, Ramanath Mallikarjuna, Thomas Houman
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Patent number: 11570234Abstract: An Internet infrastructure delivery platform (e.g., operated by a service provider) provides an overlay network (a server infrastructure) that is used to facilitate “second screen” end user media experiences. In this approach, first media content, which is typically either live on-demand, is being rendered on a first content device (e.g., a television, Blu-Ray disk or another source). That first media content may be delivered by servers in the overlay network. One or multiple end user second content devices are then adapted to be associated with the first content source, preferably, via the overlay network, to facilitate second screen end user experiences (on the second content devices).Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kristofer Alexander, Andrew F. Champagne, F. Thomson Leighton, Robert Neville, William Law
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Patent number: 11343344Abstract: A proxy server is augmented with the capability of taking transient possession of a received entity for purposes of serving consuming devices. This capability supplements destination forwarding and/or origin server transactions performed by the proxy server. This capability enables several entity transfer modes, including a rendezvous service, in which the proxy server can (if invoked by a client) fulfill a client's request with an entity that the proxy server receives from a producing device contemporaneous with (or shortly after) the request for that entity. It also enables server-to-server transfers with synchronous or asynchronous destination forwarding behavior. It also enables a mode in which clients can request different representations of entities, e.g., from either the near-channel (e.g., the version stored at the proxy server) or a far-channel (e.g., at origin server).Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Matthew J. Stevens, Michael G. Merideth, Nil Alexandrov, Andrew F. Champagne, Brendan Coyle, Timothy Glynn, Mark A. Roman, Philip A. Lisiecki, Xin Xu
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Patent number: 11343348Abstract: This patent document describes technology for providing real-time messaging and entity update services in a distributed proxy server network, such as a CDN. Uses include distributing real-time notifications about updates to data stored in and delivered by the network, with both high efficiency and locality of latency. The technology can be integrated into conventional caching proxy servers providing HTTP services, thereby leveraging their existing footprint in the Internet, their existing overlay network topologies and architectures, and their integration with existing traffic management components.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Matthew J. Stevens, Michael G. Merideth, Nil Alexandrov, Andrew F. Champagne, Brendan Coyle, Timothy Glynn, Mark A. Roman, Xin Xu
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Publication number: 20220046085Abstract: A high-performance distributed ledger and transaction computing network fabric over which large numbers of transactions (involving the transformation, conversion or transfer of information or value) are processed concurrently in a scalable, reliable, secure and efficient manner. In one embodiment, the computing network fabric or “core” is configured to support a distributed blockchain network that organizes data in a manner that allows communication, processing and storage of blocks of the chain to be performed concurrently, with little synchronization, at very high performance and low latency, even when the transactions themselves originate from distant sources. This data organization relies on segmenting a transaction space within autonomous but cooperating computing nodes that are configured as a processing mesh. According to an aspect of this disclosure, the CDN edge network is then used to deliver receipts associated with transactions that are processed into the blockchain.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: David C. Carver, Andrew F. Champagne
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Publication number: 20220006856Abstract: An Internet infrastructure delivery platform (e.g., operated by a service provider) provides an overlay network (a server infrastructure) that is used to facilitate “second screen” end user media experiences. In this approach, first media content, which is typically either live on-demand, is being rendered on a first content device (e.g., a television, Blu-Ray disk or another source). That first media content may be delivered by servers in the overlay network. One or multiple end user second content devices are then adapted to be associated with the first content source, preferably, via the overlay network, to facilitate second screen end user experiences (on the second content devices).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Kristofer Alexander, Andrew F. Champagne, F. Thomson Leighton, Robert Neville, William Law
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Publication number: 20210337003Abstract: Stream-based data deduplication is provided in a multi-tenant shared infrastructure but without requiring “paired” endpoints having synchronized data dictionaries. Data objects processed by the dedupe functionality are treated as objects that can be fetched as needed. As such, a decoding peer does not need to maintain a symmetric library for the origin. Rather, if the peer does not have the chunks in cache that it needs, it follows a conventional content delivery network procedure to retrieve them. In this way, if dictionaries between pairs of sending and receiving peers are out-of-sync, relevant sections are then re-synchronized on-demand. The approach does not require that libraries maintained at a particular pair of sender and receiving peers are the same. Rather, the technique enables a peer, in effect, to “backfill” its dictionary on-the-fly. On-the-wire compression techniques are provided to reduce the amount of data transmitted between the peers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Charles E. Gero, Andrew F. Champagne, F. Thomson Leighton
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Patent number: 11159613Abstract: A high-performance distributed ledger and transaction computing network fabric over which large numbers of transactions (involving the transformation, conversion or transfer of information or value) are processed concurrently in a scalable, reliable, secure and efficient manner. In one embodiment, the computing network fabric or “core” is configured to support a distributed blockchain network that organizes data in a manner that allows communication, processing and storage of blocks of the chain to be performed concurrently, with little synchronization, at very high performance and low latency, even when the transactions themselves originate from distant sources. This data organization relies on segmenting a transaction space within autonomous but cooperating computing nodes that are configured as a processing mesh. According to an aspect of this disclosure, the CDN edge network is then used to deliver receipts associated with transactions that are processed into the blockchain.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: David C. Carver, Andrew F. Champagne
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Patent number: 11128693Abstract: An Internet infrastructure delivery platform (e.g., operated by a service provider) provides an overlay network (a server infrastructure) that is used to facilitate “second screen” end user media experiences. In this approach, first media content, which is typically either live on-demand, is being rendered on a first content device (e.g., a television, Blu-Ray disk or another source). That first media content may be delivered by servers in the overlay network. One or multiple end user second content devices are then adapted to be associated with the first content source, preferably, via the overlay network, to facilitate second screen end user experiences (on the second content devices).Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kristofer Alexander, Andrew F. Champagne, F. Thomson Leighton, Robert Neville, William Law
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Publication number: 20210227040Abstract: A high-performance distributed ledger and transaction computing network fabric over which large numbers of transactions (involving the transformation, conversion or transfer of information or value) are processed concurrently in a scalable, reliable, secure and efficient manner. In one embodiment, the computing network fabric or “core” is configured to support a distributed blockchain network that organizes data in a manner that allows communication, processing and storage of blocks of the chain to be performed concurrently, with little synchronization, at very high performance and low latency, even when the transactions themselves originate from distant sources. This data organization relies on segmenting a transaction space within autonomous but cooperating computing nodes that are configured as a processing mesh. Each computing node typically is functionally-equivalent to all other nodes in the core.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: David C. Carver, Thomas Houman, Andrew F. Champagne, Vladimir Shtokman, Patrick Alexander Deegan, Ramanath Mallikarjuna
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Patent number: 10972568Abstract: A high-performance distributed ledger and transaction computing network fabric over which large numbers of transactions (involving the transformation, conversion or transfer of information or value) are processed concurrently in a scalable, reliable, secure and efficient manner. In one embodiment, the computing network fabric or “core” is configured to support a distributed blockchain network that organizes data in a manner that allows communication, processing and storage of blocks of the chain to be performed concurrently, with little synchronization, at very high performance and low latency, even when the transactions themselves originate from distant sources. This data organization relies on segmenting a transaction space within autonomous but cooperating computing nodes that are configured as a processing mesh. Each computing node typically is functionally-equivalent to all other nodes in the core.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: David C. Carver, Thomas Houman, Andrew F. Champagne, Vladimir Shtokman, Patrick Alexander Deegan, Ramanath Mallikarjuna
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Publication number: 20200412800Abstract: Stream-based data deduplication is provided in a multi-tenant shared infrastructure but without requiring “paired” endpoints having synchronized data dictionaries. Data objects processed by the dedupe functionality are treated as objects that can be fetched as needed. As such, a decoding peer does not need to maintain a symmetric library for the origin. Rather, if the peer does not have the chunks in cache that it needs, it follows a conventional content delivery network procedure to retrieve them. In this way, if dictionaries between pairs of sending and receiving peers are out-of-sync, relevant sections are then re-synchronized on-demand. The approach does not require that libraries maintained at a particular pair of sender and receiving peers are the same. Rather, the technique enables a peer, in effect, to “backfill” its dictionary on-the-fly. On-the-wire compression techniques are provided to reduce the amount of data transmitted between the peers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: F. Thomson Leighton, Andrew F. Champagne, Charles E. Gero, Guy Podjarny
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Patent number: 10778760Abstract: Stream-based data deduplication is provided in a multi-tenant shared infrastructure but without requiring “paired” endpoints having synchronized data dictionaries. Data objects processed by the dedupe functionality are treated as objects that can be fetched as needed. As such, a decoding peer does not need to maintain a symmetric library for the origin. Rather, if the peer does not have the chunks in cache that it needs, it follows a conventional content delivery network procedure to retrieve them. In this way, if dictionaries between pairs of sending and receiving peers are out-of-sync, relevant sections are then re-synchronized on-demand. The approach does not require that libraries maintained at a particular pair of sender and receiving peers are the same. Rather, the technique enables a peer, in effect, to “backfill” its dictionary on-the-fly. On-the-wire compression techniques are provided to reduce the amount of data transmitted between the peers.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: F. Thomson Leighton, Andrew F. Champagne, Charles E. Gero, Guy Podjarny
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Patent number: 10742546Abstract: A traffic on-boarding method is operative at an acceleration server of an overlay network. It begins at the acceleration server when that server receives an assertion generated by an identity provider (IdP), the IdP having generated the assertion upon receiving an authentication request from a service provider (SP), the SP having generated the authentication request upon receiving from a client a request for a protected resource. The acceleration server receives the assertion and forwards it to the SP, which verifies the assertion and returns to the acceleration server a token, together with the protected resource. The acceleration server then returns a response to the requesting client that includes a version of the protected resource that points back to the acceleration server and not the SP. When the acceleration server then receives an additional request from the client, the acceleration server interacts with the service provider using an overlay network optimization.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andrew B. Ellis, Charles E. Gero, Andrew F. Champagne