Patents by Inventor William R. Powers
William R. Powers 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: 10367907Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for a content delivery network (CDN) architecture utilizing one or more proxy cache devices between a requesting device and an edge cluster of the CDN. The proxy cache device is a relatively high-speed device compared to various possible devices making up one or more edge clusters. Thus, if the proxy has cached the requested content, it is capable of directly servicing the client content request at a faster rate than providing the content from the edge cluster. Otherwise, the proxy cache may request the content from an edge cluster and store the content for quick retrieval in response to additional requests for the content. In one embodiment, the proxy cache may perform an analysis of the request or a series of requests to determine if the content is cached at the proxy cache device.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Joseph C. Lawrence, Kevin C. Johns, William R. Power
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Patent number: 10348801Abstract: A content delivery method, and related apparatus, that involves the operations of receiving a request for a content resource including at least one embedded resource with a tag. Upon identification of the tag, using at least one delivery parameter to generate a modified embedded resource. Embedding the modified embedded resource in a content resource, such as as an HTML document. Delivering, such as in response to request from a browser, the content resource with the modified embedded resource.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2018Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Christopher Newton, William R. Power
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Patent number: 10264091Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for providing failover and load clustering features to one or more proxy servers of a content delivery network (CDN). In one embodiment, one or more proxy servers may announce a virtual host internet protocol (IP) and, to provide a failover feature, two or more of the proxy servers may also announce a more generic virtual network IP address that includes a broader range of IP addresses associated with the virtual network IP address. In another embodiment, each of the proxy servers in communication with the router may announce a generic IP network address to the router. In response to receiving a request for content from an end user of the CDN, the router may select a proxy server and load balance the received requests among the proxy servers.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William R. Power, Paul K. McDonnell
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Publication number: 20190109895Abstract: A computer-implemented method, in a content delivery (CD) network that delivers content on behalf of multiple content providers. The method includes, at a server in the CDN, wherein the server is currently processing at least one other request in at least one other session: receiving a connection request from a client, the connection request being associated with a corresponding content request; determining whether handling the content request will cause the server to become overloaded; and, based on the determining in (B) and on information about the content request, conditionally (i) accepting the content request, and (ii) terminating or throttling at least one session on the server.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2017Publication date: April 11, 2019Inventors: William R. Power, Christopher Newton, Laurence Lipstone, William Crowder
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Publication number: 20190104167Abstract: A content delivery network with at least one first content server bound to a first domain associated with a first characteristic (e.g., popular) associated with content servable from the content delivery network. The content delivery network includes at least one second content server bound to a second domain associated with a second characteristic (e.g., unpopular) associated with content servable from the content delivery network. At least one processing device including computer executable instructions for receiving a request to provide an embedded resource including either a first host name associated with the first domain or a second host name associated with the second domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2018Publication date: April 4, 2019Inventors: Christopher Newton, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20190052726Abstract: Systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for mapping requests for content received at a CDN to multiple mid-tier content servers. In an example, a method involves utilizing one or more hashing algorithms to map a URL associated with the mid-tier devices to one or more hostnames that may be utilized by the CDN to route requests for content to a particular mid-tier device when an edge device cannot service the request. In this manner, one content device of a particular metro receives requests for particular content and serves that content. By limiting the requests for particular content to a particular mid-tier device, storage may be more efficiently allocated across the mid-tier devices and content not replicated at multiple mid-tier devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventor: William R. Power
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Publication number: 20190052541Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for monitoring and quantifying the performance of a content delivery network (CDN) from a client side perspective based on server side events. In one particular embodiment, one or more content servers of the CDN may provide connectivity or other performance information to a collector device or site. This information may be reported by each of the content servers for each request for content received at the server. The collector site may then store the received performance information in a database for analysis by one or more systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: William Hopkins, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20180359304Abstract: A content delivery method, and related apparatus, that involves the operations of receiving a request for a content resource including at least one embedded resource with a tag. Upon identification of the tag, using at least one delivery parameter to generate a modified embedded resource. Embedding the modified embedded resource in a content resource, such as as an HTML document. Delivering, such as in response to request from a browser, the content resource with the modified embedded resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2018Publication date: December 13, 2018Inventors: Christopher Newton, William R. Power
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Patent number: 10148728Abstract: A content delivery network with at least one first content server bound to a first domain associated with a first characteristic (e.g., popular) associated with content servable from the content delivery network. The content delivery network includes at least one second content server bound to a second domain associated with a second characteristic (e.g., unpopular) associated with content servable from the content delivery network. At least one processing device including computer executable instructions for receiving a request to provide an embedded resource including either a first host name associated with the first domain or a second host name associated with the second domain.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Christopher Newton, William R. Power
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Patent number: 10103945Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for monitoring and quantifying the performance of a content delivery network (CDN) from a client side perspective based on server side events. In one particular embodiment, one or more content servers of the CDN may provide connectivity or other performance information to a collector device or site. This information may be reported by each of the content servers for each request for content received at the server. The collector site may then store the received performance information in a database for analysis by one or more systems.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20180241819Abstract: Methods and systems for storing and distributing content include executing storage rules against ingested content to determine in which of a plurality of storage systems to store the ingested content. A metadata collection that includes records corresponding to the stored content is maintained such that the content may be located by querying or otherwise searching the metadata collection. The metadata collection may be analyzed using various criteria to identify content to be migrated between different storage systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: August 23, 2018Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Jason Huselton, William R. Power
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Patent number: 10057322Abstract: A content delivery method, and related apparatus, that involves the operations of receiving a request for a content resource including at least one embedded resource with a tag. Upon identification of the tag, using at least one delivery parameter to generate a modified embedded resource. Embedding the modified embedded resource in a content resource, such as as an HTML document. Delivering, such as in response to request from a browser, the content resource with the modified embedded resource.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2015Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Christopher Newton, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20180091616Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for a content delivery network (CDN) architecture utilizing one or more proxy cache devices between a requesting device and an edge cluster of the CDN. The proxy cache device is a relatively high-speed device compared to various possible devices making up one or more edge clusters. Thus, if the proxy has cached the requested content, it is capable of directly servicing the client content request at a faster rate than providing the content from the edge cluster. Otherwise, the proxy cache may request the content from an edge cluster and store the content for quick retrieval in response to additional requests for the content. In one embodiment, the proxy cache may perform an analysis of the request or a series of requests to determine if the content is cached at the proxy cache device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Joseph C. Lawrence, Kevin C. Johns, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20180091619Abstract: Provided is a content delivery method and architecture for ways to improve the caching of content at one or more content providing devices of a Content Delivery Network (CDN). In particular, systems and methods are disclosed that vary the requirements to store resources or content within a caching device using a dynamic popularity threshold. This popularity threshold may be varied based on a measured fullness of the storage capacity of the cache device. In another example, the dynamic popularity threshold may be further varied based on a cache pressure, which is an indication of how often the cache replaces stored items with new items. The adjustment to the popularity threshold for caching particular content at the caching device may thus be based on a number of requests for content received at the device to tune the caching procedure for a particular region of the CDN.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William R. Power, Pawel Jakobowski
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Patent number: 9838497Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for a content delivery network (CDN) architecture utilizing one or more proxy cache devices between a requesting device and an edge cluster of the CDN. The proxy cache device is a relatively high speed device compared to various possible devices making up one or more edge clusters. Thus, if the proxy has cached the requested content, it is capable of directly servicing the client content request at a faster rate than providing the content from the edge cluster. Otherwise, the proxy cache may request the content from an edge cluster and store the content for quick retrieval in response to additional requests for the content. In one embodiment, the proxy cache may perform an analysis of the request or a series of requests to determine if the content is cached at the proxy cache device.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: December 5, 2017Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Joseph C. Lawrence, Kevin C. Johns, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20170244643Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure include a content delivery network (CDN) for delivering content associated with a plurality of different types of applications/devices. Using a CDN flow application, a plurality of network flow parameters are generated for content delivery unique to different types of applications or devices. The network flow parameters include customized data transmission rates. The network flow parameters include predetermined settings for transmission control protocol (TCP) connections between the CDN and devices using a TCP flow control mechanism. Upon receiving a content request, the CDN fulfills the content request based upon first network flow parameters. The network flow parameters may be adjusted for each of the plurality of different types of applications/devices. The network flow parameters may be generated based upon requests or based upon the performance of each of the plurality of applications/devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Joseph C. Lawrence, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20160294642Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems and methods for monitoring and quantifying the performance of a content delivery network (CDN) from a client side perspective based on server side events. In one particular embodiment, one or more content servers of the CDN may provide connectivity or other performance information to a collector device or site. This information may be reported by each of the content servers for each request for content received at the server. The collector site may then store the received performance information in a database for analysis by one or more systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2016Publication date: October 6, 2016Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20160191456Abstract: A content delivery network with at least one first content server bound to a first domain associated with a first characteristic (e.g., popular) associated with content servable from the content delivery network. The content delivery network includes at least one second content server bound to a second domain associated with a second characteristic (e.g., unpopular) associated with content servable from the content delivery network. At least one processing device including computer executable instructions for receiving a request to provide an embedded resource including either a first host name associated with the first domain or a second host name associated with the second domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2015Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Christopher Newton, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20160191455Abstract: A content delivery method, and related apparatus, that involves the operations of receiving a request for a content resource including at least one embedded resource with a tag. Upon identification of the tag, using at least one delivery parameter to generate a modified embedded resource. Embedding the modified embedded resource in a content resource, such as as an HTML document. Delivering, such as in response to request from a browser, the content resource with the modified embedded resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2015Publication date: June 30, 2016Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Christopher Newton, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20150237159Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve systems, methods, computer program products, and the like, for a content delivery network (CDN) architecture utilizing one or more proxy cache devices between a requesting device and an edge cluster of the CDN. The proxy cache device is a relatively high speed device compared to various possible devices making up one or more edge clusters. Thus, if the proxy has cached the requested content, it is capable of directly servicing the client content request at a faster rate than providing the content from the edge cluster. Otherwise, the proxy cache may request the content from an edge cluster and store the content for quick retrieval in response to additional requests for the content. In one embodiment, the proxy cache may perform an analysis of the request or a series of requests to determine if the content is cached at the proxy cache device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2015Publication date: August 20, 2015Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Joseph C. Lawrence, Kevin C. Johns, William R. Power