Patents by Inventor Daniel M. Lewin
Daniel M. Lewin 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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Publication number: 20170237705Abstract: Network architecture supports hosting and content distribution on a global scale. The architecture allows a Content Provider to replicate and serve its most popular content at an unlimited number of points throughout the world. The inventive framework comprises a set of servers operating in a distributed manner. The actual content to be served is preferably supported on a set of hosting servers (sometimes referred to as ghost servers). This content comprises HTML page objects that, conventionally, are served from a Content Provider site. A base HTML document portion of a Web page is served from the Content Provider's site while one or more embedded objects for the page are served from the hosting servers, preferably, those hosting servers near the client machine. By serving the base HTML document from the Content Provider's site, the Content Provider maintains control over the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventors: F. Thomson Leighton, Daniel M. Lewin
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Patent number: 9641482Abstract: Network architecture supports hosting and content distribution on a global scale. The architecture allows a Content Provider to replicate and serve its most popular content at an unlimited number of points throughout the world. The inventive framework comprises a set of servers operating in a distributed manner. The actual content to be served is preferably supported on a set of hosting servers (sometimes referred to as ghost servers). This content comprises HTML page objects that, conventionally, are served from a Content Provider site. A base HTML document portion of a Web page is served from the Content Provider's site while one or more embedded objects for the page are served from the hosting servers, preferably, those hosting servers near the client machine. By serving the base HTML document from the Content Provider's site, the Content Provider maintains control over the content.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: F. Thomson Leighton, Daniel M. Lewin
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Patent number: 9300560Abstract: A method for Internet delivery in a delivery network established at network locations, the delivery network comprising a plurality of content servers for serving resources. The servers include a plurality of subsets, each subset 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 data centers to be used to service the requests. For the IP address block, the method selects at least one of the data centers from the candidate list. The selected Internet data center for the IP address block is written into a network map. In response to a DNS query, the map is used to identify one of the Internet data centers from the candidate list to be used to service a request for a content resource.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2013Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: F. Thomson Leighton, Rizwan S. Dhanidina, Robert D. Kleinberg, Matthew Levine, Daniel M. Lewin, Andrew Parker, Adrian Soviani, Ravi Sundaram
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Patent number: 8972461Abstract: Content is dynamically assembled at the edge of the Internet, preferably on content delivery network (CDN) edge servers. A content provider leverages an “edge side include” (ESI) markup language that is used to define Web page fragments for dynamic assembly at the edge. Dynamic assembly improves site performance by caching objects that comprise dynamically-generated pages at the edge of the Internet, close to the end user. Instead of being assembled by an application/web server in a centralized data center, the application/web server sends a page template and content fragments to a CDN edge server where the page is assembled. Each content fragment can have its own cacheability profile to manage the “freshness” of the content. Once a user requests a page, the edge server examines its cache for the included fragments and assembles the page on-the-fly.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2013Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Daniel M. Lewin, Andrew T. Davis, Samuel D. Gendler, Marty Kagan, Jay G. Parikh, William E. Weihl
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Patent number: 8806008Abstract: A content delivery network provides delivery of cacheable content files, such as HTML. To support HTML delivery, the content provider provides the CDNSP with an association of the content provider's domain name to an origin server domain name at which default HTML files are published. The CDNSP provides its customer with a CDNSP-specific domain name. The content provider then implements DNS entry aliasing so that domain name requests for the host cue the CDN DNS request routing mechanism. This mechanism identifies a content server to respond to a request directed to the customer's domain. The CDN content server returns a default HTML file if such file is cached; otherwise, the content server directs a request for the file to the origin server to retrieve the file, after which the file is cached on the content server for subsequent use.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2012Date of Patent: August 12, 2014Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: F. Thomson Leighton, Daniel M. Lewin
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Publication number: 20140059248Abstract: Network architecture supports hosting and content distribution on a global scale. The architecture allows a Content Provider to replicate and serve its most popular content at an unlimited number of points throughout the world. The inventive framework comprises a set of servers operating in a distributed manner. The actual content to be served is preferably supported on a set of hosting servers (sometimes referred to as ghost servers). This content comprises HTML page objects that, conventionally, are served from a Content Provider site. A base HTML document portion of a Web page is served from the Content Provider's site while one or more embedded objects for the page are served from the hosting servers, preferably, those hosting servers near the client machine. By serving the base HTML document from the Content Provider's site, the Content Provider maintains control over the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: F. Thomson Leighton, Daniel M. Lewin
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Publication number: 20140052811Abstract: Content is dynamically assembled at the edge of the Internet, preferably on content delivery network (CDN) edge servers. A content provider leverages an “edge side include” (ESI) markup language that is used to define Web page fragments for dynamic assembly at the edge. Dynamic assembly improves site performance by caching objects that comprise dynamically-generated pages at the edge of the Internet, close to the end user. Instead of being assembled by an application/web server in a centralized data center, the application/web server sends a page template and content fragments to a CDN edge server where the page is assembled. Each content fragment can have its own cacheability profile to manage the “freshness” of the content. Once a user requests a page, the edge server examines its cache for the included fragments and assembles the page on-the-fly.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Daniel M. Lewin, Andrew T. Davis, Samuel D. Gendler, Marty Kagan, Jay G. Parikh, William E. Weihl
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Patent number: 8577997Abstract: Network architecture supports hosting and content distribution on a global scale. The architecture allows a Content Provider to replicate and serve its most popular content at an unlimited number of points throughout the world. The inventive framework comprises a set of servers operating in a distributed manner. The actual content to be served is preferably supported on a set of hosting servers (sometimes referred to as ghost servers). This content comprises HTML page objects that, conventionally, are served from a Content Provider site. A base HTML document portion of a Web page is served from the Content Provider's site while one or more embedded objects for the page are served from the hosting servers, preferably, those hosting servers near the client machine. By serving the base HTML document from the Content Provider's site, the Content Provider maintains control over the content.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2012Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Leighton F. Thomson, Daniel M. Lewin
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Publication number: 20130246612Abstract: A content delivery network provides delivery of cacheable content files, such as HTML. To support HTML delivery, the content provider provides the CDNSP with an association of the content provider's domain name to an origin server domain name at which default HTML files are published. The CDNSP provides its customer with a CDNSP-specific domain name. The content provider then implements DNS entry aliasing so that domain name requests for the host cue the CDN DNS request routing mechanism. This mechanism identifies a content server to respond to a request directed to the customer's domain. The CDN content server returns a default HTML file if such file is cached; otherwise, the content server directs a request for the file to the origin server to retrieve the file, after which the file is cached on the content server for subsequent use.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2012Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: F. Thomson Leighton, Daniel M. Lewin
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Patent number: 8392611Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 10, 2010Date of Patent: March 5, 2013Assignee: 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
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Publication number: 20130013748Abstract: Network architecture supports hosting and content distribution on a global scale. The architecture allows a Content Provider to replicate and serve its most popular content at an unlimited number of points throughout the world. The inventive framework comprises a set of servers operating in a distributed manner. The actual content to be served is preferably supported on a set of hosting servers (sometimes referred to as ghost servers). This content comprises HTML page objects that, conventionally, are served from a Content Provider site. A base HTML document portion of a Web page is served from the Content Provider's site while one or more embedded objects for the page are served from the hosting servers, preferably, those hosting servers near the client machine. By serving the base HTML document from the Content Provider's site, the Content Provider maintains control over the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: F. Thomson Leighton, Daniel M. Lewin
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Patent number: 8307088Abstract: A content delivery network is enhanced to provide for delivery of cacheable markup language content files such as HTML. To support HTML delivery, the content provider provides the CDNSP with an association of the content provider's domain name (e.g., www.customer.com) to an origin server domain name (e.g., html.customer.com) at which one or more default HTML files are published and hosted. The CDNSP provides its customer with a CDNSP-specific domain name. The content provider, or an entity on its behalf, then implements DNS entry aliasing (e.g., a CNAME of the host to the CDNSP-specific domain) so that domain name requests for the host cue the CDN DNS request routing mechanism. This mechanism then identifies a best content server to respond to a request directed to the customer's domain.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2011Date of Patent: November 6, 2012Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: F. Thomson Leighton, Daniel M. Lewin
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Patent number: 8271617Abstract: A network architecture or framework supports hosting and content distribution on a truly global scale. The inventive framework allows a Content Provider to replicate and serve its most popular content at an unlimited number of points throughout the world. The inventive framework comprises a set of servers operating in a distributed manner. The actual content to be served is preferably supported on a set of hosting servers (sometimes referred to as ghost servers). This content comprises HTML page objects that, conventionally, are served from a Content Provider site. A base HTML document portion of a Web page is served from the Content Provider's site while one or more embedded objects for the page are served from the hosting servers, preferably, those hosting servers near the client machine. By serving the base HTML document from the Content Provider's site, the Content Provider maintains control over the content.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2011Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Leighton F. Thomson, Daniel M. Lewin
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Publication number: 20120203873Abstract: Content is dynamically assembled at the edge of the Internet, preferably on content delivery network (CDN) edge servers. A content provider leverages an “edge side include” (ESI) markup language that is used to define Web page fragments for dynamic assembly at the edge. Dynamic assembly improves site performance by caching objects that comprise dynamically-generated pages at the edge of the Internet, close to the end user. Instead of being assembled by an application/web server in a centralized data center, the application/web server sends a page template and content fragments to a CDN edge server where the page is assembled. Each content fragment can have its own cacheability profile to manage the “freshness” of the content. Once a user requests a page, the edge server examines its cache for the included fragments and assembles the page on-the-fly.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Daniel M. Lewin, Anne E. Lewin, Andrew Thomas Davis, Samuel Dov Gendler, Marty Kagan, Jay Gunvantral Parikh, William Edward Weihl
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Publication number: 20120143997Abstract: A network architecture or framework supports hosting and content distribution on a truly global scale. The inventive framework allows a Content Provider to replicate and serve its most popular content at an unlimited number of points throughout the world. The inventive framework comprises a set of servers operating in a distributed manner. The actual content to be served is preferably supported on a set of hosting servers (sometimes referred to as ghost servers). This content comprises HTML page objects that, conventionally, are served from a Content Provider site. A base HTML document portion of a Web page is served from the Content Provider's site while one or more embedded objects for the page are served from the hosting servers, preferably, those hosting servers near the client machine. By serving the base HTML document from the Content Provider's site, the Content Provider maintains control over the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2011Publication date: June 7, 2012Applicant: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: F. Thomson Leighton, Daniel M. Lewin
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Patent number: 8166079Abstract: The disclosed technique enables a content provider to dynamically assemble content at the edge of the Internet, preferably on content delivery network (CDN) edge servers. Preferably, the content provider leverages an “edge side include” (ESI) markup language that is used to define Web page fragments for dynamic assembly at the edge. Dynamic assembly improves site performance by catching the objects that comprise dynamically generated pages at the edge of the Internet, close to the end user. The content provider designs and develops the business logic to form and assemble the pages, for example, by using the ESI language within its development environment. Instead of being assembled by an application/web server in a centralized data center, the application/web server sends a page template and content fragments to a CDN edge server where the page is assembled. Each content fragment can have its own cacheability profile to manage the “freshness” of the content.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2010Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Daniel M. Lewin, Anne E. Lewin, legal representative, Andrew T. Davis, Samuel D. Gendler, Marty Kagan, Jay G. Parikh, William E. Weihl
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Publication number: 20110307584Abstract: A content delivery network is enhanced to provide for delivery of cacheable markup language content files such as HTML. To support HTML delivery, the content provider provides the CDNSP with an association of the content provider's domain name (e.g., www.customer.com) to an origin server domain name (e.g., html.customer.com) at which one or more default HTML files are published and hosted. The CDNSP provides its customer with a CDNSP-specific domain name. The content provider, or an entity on its behalf, then implements DNS entry aliasing (e.g., a CNAME of the host to the CDNSP-specific domain) so that domain name requests for the host cue the CDN DNS request routing mechanism. This mechanism then identifies a best content server to respond to a request directed to the customer's domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2011Publication date: December 15, 2011Applicant: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: F. Thomson Leighton, Daniel M. Lewin, Anne E. Lewin
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Patent number: 8073961Abstract: The present invention is a network architecture or framework that supports hosting and content distribution on a truly global scale. The inventive framework allows a Content Provider to replicate and serve its most popular content at an unlimited number of points throughout the world. The inventive framework comprises a set of servers operating in a distributed manner. The actual content to be served is preferably supported on a set of hosting servers (sometimes referred to as ghost servers). This content comprises HTML page objects that, conventionally, are served from a Content Provider site. In accordance with the invention, however, a base HTML document portion of a Web page is served from the Content Provider's site while one or more embedded objects for the page are served from the hosting servers, preferably, those hosting servers near the client machine. By serving the base HTML document from the Content Provider's site, the Content Provider maintains control over the content.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2010Date of Patent: December 6, 2011Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: F. Thomson Leighton, Daniel M. Lewin
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Patent number: 7996533Abstract: A content delivery network is enhanced to provide for delivery of cacheable markup language content files such as HTML. To support HTML delivery, the content provider provides the CDNSP with an association of the content provider's domain name (e.g., www.customer.com) to an origin server domain name (e.g., html.customer.com) at which one or more default HTML files are published and hosted. The CDNSP provides its customer with a CDNSP-specific domain name. The content provider, or an entity on its behalf, then implements DNS entry aliasing (e.g., a CNAME of the host to the CDNSP-specific domain) so that domain name requests for the host cue the CDN DNS request routing mechanism. This mechanism then identifies a best content server to respond to a request directed to the customer's domain.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2009Date of Patent: August 9, 2011Assignee: Akamai Technologies, Inc.Inventors: F. Thomson Leighton, Daniel M. Lewin, Anne E. Lewin, legal representative
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Publication number: 20100274819Abstract: The disclosed technique enables a content provider to dynamically assemble content at the edge of the Internet, preferably on content delivery network (CDN) edge servers. Preferably, the content provider leverages an “edge side include” (ESI) markup language that is used to define Web page fragments for dynamic assembly at the edge. Dynamic assembly improves site performance by catching the objects that comprise dynamically generated pages at the edge of the Internet, close to the end user. The content provider designs and develops the business logic to form and assemble the pages, for example, by using the ESI language within its development environment. Instead of being assembled by an application/web server in a centralized data center, the application/web server sends a page template and content fragments to a CDN edge server where the page is assembled. Each content fragment can have its own cacheability profile to manage the “freshness” of the content.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2010Publication date: October 28, 2010Applicant: AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Daniel M. Lewin, Anne E. Lewin, Andrew Thomas Davis, Samuel Dov Gendler, Marty Kagan, Jay Gunvantral Parikh, William Edward Weihl