Patents by Inventor Utkarsh Goel

Utkarsh Goel 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).

  • Publication number: 20240137401
    Abstract: Among other things, this document describes systems, devices, and methods for improving the delivery and performance of web pages authored to produce virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) experiences. In some embodiments, such web pages are analyzed. This analysis may be initiated at the request of a content server that receives a client request for the HTML. The analysis may involve, asynchronous to the client request, loading the the page into a non-user-facing browser environment and allowing the VR or AR scene to execute, even including executing animation routines for a predetermined period of time. Certain characteristics of the scene and of objects are thereby captured. Based on this information, an object list ordered by loading priority is prepared. Consulting this information in response to subsequent requests for the page, a content server can implement server push, early hints and/or other delivery enhancements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Martin T. Flack, Stephen L. Ludin
  • Publication number: 20240054036
    Abstract: A server in a content delivery network (CDN) can examine API traffic and extract therefrom content that can be optimized before it is served to a client. The server can apply content location instructions to a given API message to find such content therein. Upon finding an instance of such content, the server can verify the identity of the content by applying a set of content verification instructions. If verification succeeds, the server can retrieve an optimized version of the identified content and swap it into the API message for the original version. If an optimized version is not available, the server can initiate an optimization process so that next time the optimized version will be available. In some embodiments, an analysis service can assist by observing traffic from an API endpoint over time, detecting the format of API messages and producing the content location and verification instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Martin T. Flack
  • Patent number: 11811853
    Abstract: Among other things, this document describes systems, devices, and methods for improving the delivery and performance of web pages authored to produce virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) experiences. In some embodiments, such web pages are analyzed. This analysis may be initiated at the request of a content server that receives a client request for the HTML. The analysis may involve, asynchronous to the client request, loading the page into a non-user-facing browser environment and allowing the VR or AR scene to execute, even including executing animation routines for a predetermined period of time. Certain characteristics of the scene and of objects are thereby captured. Based on this information, an object list ordered by loading priority is prepared. Consulting this information in response to subsequent requests for the page, a content server can implement server push, early hints and/or other delivery enhancements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Akamal Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Martin T. Flack, Stephen L. Ludin
  • Publication number: 20230300186
    Abstract: Among other things, this document describes systems, devices, and methods for improving the delivery and performance of web pages authored to produce virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) experiences. In some embodiments, such web pages are analyzed. This analysis may be initiated at the request of a content server that receives a client request for the HTML. The analysis may involve, asynchronous to the client request, loading the page into a non-user-facing browser environment and allowing the VR or AR scene to execute, even including executing animation routines for a predetermined period of time. Certain characteristics of the scene and of objects are thereby captured. Based on this information, an object list ordered by loading priority is prepared. Consulting this information in response to subsequent requests for the page, a content server can implement server push, early hints and/or other delivery enhancements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Martin T. Flack, Stephen L. Ludin
  • Patent number: 11720427
    Abstract: A server in a content delivery network (CDN) can examine API traffic and extract therefrom content that can be optimized before it is served to a client. The server can apply content location instructions to a given API message to find such content therein. Upon finding an instance of such content, the server can verify the identity of the content by applying a set of content verification instructions. If verification succeeds, the server can retrieve an optimized version of the identified content and swap it into the API message for the original version. If an optimized version is not available, the server can initiate an optimization process so that next time the optimized version will be available. In some embodiments, an analysis service can assist by observing traffic from an API endpoint over time, detecting the format of API messages and producing the content location and verification instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Martin T. Flack
  • Patent number: 11641337
    Abstract: This document relates to a CDN balancing mitigation system. An implementing CDN can deploy systems and techniques to monitor the domains of content provider customers with an active DNS scanner and detect which are using other CDNs on the same domain. This information can be used as an input signal for identifying and implementing adjustments to CDN configuration. Both automated and semi-automated adjustments are possible. The system can issue configuration adjustments or recommendations to the implementing CDN's servers or to its personnel. These might include “above-SLA” treatments intended to divert traffic to the implementing CDN. The effectiveness can be measured with the multi-CDN balance subsequently observed. The scanning and adjustment workflow can be permanent, temporary, or cycled. Treatments may include a variety of things, such as more cache storage, routing to less loaded servers, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin T. Flack, Utkarsh Goel
  • Publication number: 20230048746
    Abstract: A server in a content delivery network (CDN) can examine API traffic and extract therefrom content that can be optimized before it is served to a client. The server can apply content location instructions to a given API message to find such content therein. Upon finding an instance of such content, the server can verify the identity of the content by applying a set of content verification instructions. If verification succeeds, the server can retrieve an optimized version of the identified content and swap it into the API message for the original version. If an optimized version is not available, the server can initiate an optimization process so that next time the optimized version will be available. In some embodiments, an analysis service can assist by observing traffic from an API endpoint over time, detecting the format of API messages and producing the content location and verification instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Martin T. Flack
  • Patent number: 11560927
    Abstract: Among other things, this document describes systems, devices, and methods for improving the delivery and performance of web pages authored to produce virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) experiences. In some embodiments, such web pages are analyzed. This analysis may be initiated at the request of a content server that receives a client request for the HTML. The analysis may involve, asynchronous to the client request, loading the page into a non-user-facing browser environment and allowing the VR or AR scene to execute, even including executing animation routines for a predetermined period of time. Certain characteristics of the scene and of objects are thereby captured. Based on this information, an object list ordered by loading priority is prepared. Consulting this information in response to subsequent requests for the page, a content server can implement server push, early hints and/or other delivery enhancements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Martin T. Flack, Stephen L. Ludin
  • Publication number: 20220255893
    Abstract: This document relates to a CDN balancing mitigation system. An implementing CDN can deploy systems and techniques to monitor the domains of content provider customers with an active DNS scanner and detect which are using other CDNs on the same domain. This information can be used as an input signal for identifying and implementing adjustments to CDN configuration. Both automated and semi-automated adjustments are possible. The system can issue configuration adjustments or recommendations to the implementing CDN's servers or to its personnel. These might include “above-SLA” treatments intended to divert traffic to the implementing CDN. The effectiveness can be measured with the multi-CDN balance subsequently observed. The scanning and adjustment workflow can be permanent, temporary, or cycled. Treatments may include a variety of things, such as more cache storage, routing to less loaded servers, and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: Akamai Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Martin T. Flack, Utkarsh Goel
  • Patent number: 11379281
    Abstract: A server in a content delivery network (CDN) can examine API traffic and extract therefrom content that can be optimized before it is served to a client. The server can apply content location instructions to a given API message to find such content therein. Upon finding an instance of such content, the server can verify the identity of the content by applying a set of content verification instructions. If verification succeeds, the server can retrieve an optimized version of the identified content and swap it into the API message for the original version. If an optimized version is not available, the server can initiate an optimization process so that next time the optimized version will be available. In some embodiments, an analysis service can assist by observing traffic from an API endpoint over time, detecting the format of API messages and producing the content location and verification instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Martin T. Flack
  • Publication number: 20220156132
    Abstract: A server in a content delivery network (CDN) can examine API traffic and extract therefrom content that can be optimized before it is served to a client. The server can apply content location instructions to a given API message to find such content therein. Upon finding an instance of such content, the server can verify the identity of the content by applying a set of content verification instructions. If verification succeeds, the server can retrieve an optimized version of the identified content and swap it into the API message for the original version. If an optimized version is not available, the server can initiate an optimization process so that next time the optimized version will be available. In some embodiments, an analysis service can assist by observing traffic from an API endpoint over time, detecting the format of API messages and producing the content location and verification instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Martin T. Flack
  • Patent number: 11233768
    Abstract: This document relates to a CDN balancing mitigation system. An implementing CDN can deploy systems and techniques to monitor the domains of content provider customers with an active DNS scanner and detect which are using other CDNs on the same domain. This information can be used as an input signal for identifying and implementing adjustments to CDN configuration. Both automated and semi-automated adjustments are possible. The system can issue configuration adjustments or recommendations to the implementing CDN's servers or to its personnel. These might include “above-SLA” treatments intended to divert traffic to the implementing CDN. The effectiveness can be measured with the multi-CDN balance subsequently observed. The scanning and adjustment workflow can be permanent, temporary, or cycled. Treatments may include a variety of things, such as more cache storage, routing to less loaded servers, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin T. Flack, Utkarsh Goel
  • Patent number: 10986159
    Abstract: Among other things, this document describes systems, devices, and methods for using TLS session resumption tickets to store and manage information about objects that a server or a set of servers has previously delivered to a client and therefore that the client is likely to have in client-side cache. When communicated to a server later, this information can be used to drive server decisions about whether to push an object to a client, e.g., using an HTTP/2 server push function or the like, or whether to send an early hint to the client about anobject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Martin T. Flack, Stephen L. Ludin, Moritz M. Steiner
  • Publication number: 20200358871
    Abstract: Enable a CDN server to potentially go forward to any of multiple candidate servers (or other infrastructure) to retrieve a client-requested object, based on periodic testing of such candidate servers or infrastructure for cache hits and network latency (among other things), and scoring thereof. Such candidate servers or infrastructure represent alternative places to get the object. Importantly, a candidate may be a server or infrastructure owned and/or operated by another CDN, including a CDN industry competitor, and may be discovered in a preliminary process that involves detection of multi-CDN arrangements on the Internet where the foregoing approach may be viable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: Akamai Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Martin T. Flack
  • Patent number: 10834222
    Abstract: Enable a CDN server to potentially go forward to any of multiple candidate servers (or other infrastructure) to retrieve a client-requested object, based on periodic testing of such candidate servers or infrastructure for cache hits and network latency (among other things), and scoring thereof. Such candidate servers or infrastructure represent alternative places to get the object. Importantly, a candidate may be a server or infrastructure owned and/or operated by another CDN, including a CDN industry competitor, and may be discovered in a preliminary process that involves detection of multi-CDN arrangements on the Internet where the foregoing approach may be viable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Martin T. Flack
  • Patent number: 10810279
    Abstract: Among other things, this document describes systems, devices, and methods for improving the delivery of resources embedded on a web page. In one embodiment, a content delivery network analyzes markup language documents that clients have requested to embedded resources, such as linked references to images, scripts, fonts, cascading style sheets, or other types of content. This analysis may be conducted on the content server and/or asynchronously, in a dedicated analytical environment, to produce delivery instructions. Where embedded resources have hostnames for which the content delivery network is authoritative, and where certain conditions are met, servers can be instructed to push additional certificates for such hostnames over the primary connection. When embedded resources have hostnames for which the platform is not authoritative, and where certain conditions are met, servers can be instructed to pre-fetch and push such resources with a signature from the authoritative origin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Moritz Steiner, Michael A. Bishop, Martin T. Flack, Stephen L. Ludin
  • Publication number: 20200292013
    Abstract: Among other things, this document describes systems, devices, and methods for improving the delivery and performance of web pages authored to produce virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) experiences. In some embodiments, such web pages are analyzed. This analysis may be initiated at the request of a content server that receives a client request for the HTML. The analysis may involve, asynchronous to the client request, loading the page into a non-user-facing browser environment and allowing the VR or AR scene to execute, even including executing animation routines for a predetermined period of time. Certain characteristics of the scene and of objects are thereby captured. Based on this information, an object list ordered by loading priority is prepared. Consulting this information in response to subsequent requests for the page, a content server can implement server push, early hints and/or other delivery enhancements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Martin T. Flack, Stephen L. Ludin
  • Patent number: 10764402
    Abstract: Among other things, this document describes systems, methods and devices for content delivery from a server to a client, and in particular using certain windows of time on the server side—during which little or no activity is expected from a client application—to perform operations that will improve the speed of content delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Moritz Steiner, Yoav Weiss
  • Publication number: 20200236156
    Abstract: Among other things, this document describes systems, devices, and methods for using TLS session resumption tickets to store and manage information about objects that a server or a set of servers has previously delivered to a client and therefore that the client is likely to have in client-side cache. When communicated to a server later, this information can be used to drive server decisions about whether to push an object to a client, e.g., using an HTTP/2 server push function or the like, or whether to send an early hint to the client about anobject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Martin T. Flack, Stephen L. Ludin, Moritz M. Steiner
  • Patent number: 10630797
    Abstract: Among other things, this document describes systems, devices, and methods for improving the delivery and performance of web pages authored to produce virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) experiences. In some embodiments, such web pages are analyzed. This analysis may be initiated at the request of a content server that receives a client request for the HTML. The analysis may involve, asynchronous to the client request, loading the page into a non-user-facing browser environment and allowing the VR or AR scene to execute, even including executing animation routines for a predetermined period of time. Certain characteristics of the scene and of objects are thereby captured. Based on this information, an object list ordered by loading priority is prepared. Consulting this information in response to subsequent requests for the page, a content server can implement server push, early hints and/or other delivery enhancements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Utkarsh Goel, Martin T. Flack, Stephen L. Ludin