Patents by Inventor William R. Power
William R. Power 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: 10764355Abstract: 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 an HTML document. Delivering, such as in response to request from a browser, the content resource with the modified embedded resource.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Christopher Newton, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20200259915Abstract: A server in a content delivery (CD) network that distributes content on behalf of one or more subscribers. Responsive to a request from a client for a particular resource, if the particular resource is already in a cache on the server, serving the particular to the client from the cache; otherwise if the particular resource is not already cached on the server, when a count value exceeds a first threshold value, obtaining, caching, and serving the particular resource. When the count value is less than a second threshold value, obtaining and serving the particular resource. When the count value is: (i) not less than the second threshold value, and (ii) not greater than the first threshold value, then obtaining the particular resource and selectively caching the particular resource; and serving the particular resource to the client.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Daniel Lee Jensen, William Crowder, Christopher Newton, William R. Power
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Patent number: 10666522Abstract: 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: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20200157766Abstract: A dipper having an inlet and an outlet. The dipper includes a front wall and an opposite back wall extending between the inlet and the outlet. The front wall has a substantially linear inner surface between the inlet and the outlet. The dipper further includes two side walls connected between the front wall and the back wall and extending between the inlet and the outlet. Further, the dipper has a lip coupled to the front wall and extending outwardly from the inlet in a direction away from the outlet, the lip having a lip inner surface arranged generally parallel with the substantially linear inner surface of the front wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Dan Feld, Richard Nicoson, William R. Powers
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Publication number: 20200145490Abstract: 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: January 4, 2020Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Jason Huselton, William R. Power
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Patent number: 10645186Abstract: A server in a content delivery (CD) network that distributes content on behalf of one or more subscribers. Responsive to a request from a client for a particular resource, if the particular resource is already in a cache on the server, serving the particular to the client from the cache; otherwise if the particular resource is not already cached on the server, when a count value exceeds a first threshold value, obtaining, caching, and serving the particular resource. When the count value is less than a second threshold value, obtaining and serving the particular resource. When the count value is: (i) not less than the second threshold value, and (ii) not greater than the first threshold value, then obtaining the particular resource and selectively caching the particular resource; and serving the particular resource to the client.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Daniel Lee Jensen, William Crowder, Christopher Newton, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20200128068Abstract: 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: December 23, 2019Publication date: April 23, 2020Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William R. Power, Christopher Newton, Laurence Lipstone, William Crowder
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Publication number: 20200084154Abstract: 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: November 13, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Joseph C. Lawrence, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20200059530Abstract: A content delivery network has at least a first tier of servers. A content delivery method includes at a first server in the first tier of servers, obtaining a request from a client for a resource. If the resource is available at the first server or at a peer of the first server, then the resource is served to the client from the first server. Otherwise, it is determined whether the resource is popular, and if the resource is determined to be popular, then the first server obtains the resource and the first server serves the resource to the client. If the resource is determined not to be popular, the server contacts a second server to obtain the resource, not in the first tier of servers, and the second server provides the resource to the first server. The first server is instructed not to cache the unpopular content.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Christopher Newton, Kevin Johns, William R. Power
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Patent number: 10536524Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Jason Huselton, William R. Power
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Patent number: 10523744Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William R. Power, Christopher Newton, Laurence Lipstone, William Crowder
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Patent number: 10519621Abstract: A dipper having an inlet and an outlet. The dipper includes a front wall and an opposite back wall extending between the inlet and the outlet. The front wall has a substantially linear inner surface between the inlet and the outlet. The dipper further includes two side walls connected between the front wall and the back wall and extending between the inlet and the outlet. Further, the dipper has a lip coupled to the front wall and extending outwardly from the inlet in a direction away from the outlet, the lip having a lip inner surface arranged generally parallel with the substantially linear inner surface of the front wall.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Joy Global Surface Mining IncInventors: Dan Feld, Richard Nicoson, William R. Powers
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Publication number: 20190372856Abstract: 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: August 19, 2019Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20190365286Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for passive tracking of dyskinesia and tremor symptoms using a wearable computer. In an embodiment, a method comprises: obtaining, by one or more motion sensors of a computer attached to a user's limb, motion data; extracting, by one or more processors of the computer, one or more features from the motion data that are potentially indicative of dyskinesia or tremor; determining, by one or more processors of the computer and based on the one or more extracted features, the likelihood of dyskinesia or tremor; generating, by the one or more processors, data indicating the likelihood of dyskinesia or tremor; and outputting, by the one or more processors, the data through an output device of the computer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2018Publication date: December 5, 2019Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: William R. Powers, III, Maryam Etezadi-Amoli, Adeeti V. Ullal, Daniel Trietsch, Sara Kianian, Hung A. Pham
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Patent number: 10484288Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 23, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: Joseph C. Lawrence, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20190349446Abstract: 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: July 24, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventors: Joseph C. Lawrence, Kevin C. Johns, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20190327326Abstract: A server in a content delivery (CD) network that distributes content on behalf of one or more subscribers. Responsive to a request from a client for a particular resource, if the particular resource is already in a cache on the server, serving the particular to the client from the cache; otherwise if the particular resource is not already cached on the server, when a count value exceeds a first threshold value, obtaining, caching, and serving the particular resource. When the count value is less than a second threshold value, obtaining and serving the particular resource. When the count value is: (i) not less than the second threshold value, and (ii) not greater than the first threshold value, then obtaining the particular resource and selectively caching the particular resource; and serving the particular resource to the client.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2018Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Daniel Lee Jensen, William Crowder, Christopher Newton, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20190327286Abstract: 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 an HTML document. Delivering, such as in response to request from a browser, the content resource with the modified embedded resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2019Publication date: October 24, 2019Inventors: Christopher Newton, William R. Power
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Patent number: 10389599Abstract: 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: October 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Level 3 Communications, LLCInventors: William Hopkins, William R. Power
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Publication number: 20190245939Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: William R. Power, Paul K. McDonnell