Patents by Inventor Andrew D. Parker

Andrew D. Parker 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).

  • Network performance monitoring in a content delivery system
    Patent number: 8392611
    Abstract: A method for Internet content delivery in a content delivery network established at network locations, the content delivery network comprising a plurality of content servers for serving content resources. The plurality of content servers includes a plurality of subsets of content servers, each subject being located at one of a plurality of Internet data centers. For each Internet Protocol (IP) address block from which requests for content resources are expected to be received, the method generates a candidate list of Internet data centers to be used to service the requests for content resources. For the IP address block, the method selects at least one of the Internet data centers from the candidate list to be used to service the requests for content resources. The selected Internet data center for the IP address block is written into a network map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2013
    Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: F. Thomson Leighton, Rizwan S. Dhanidina, Robert D. Kleinberg, Matthew Levine, Daniel M. Lewin, Andrew D. Parker, Adrian Soviani, Ravi Sundaram