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US 10,241,636 B2Granted
User interface for collecting criteria and estimating delivery parameters
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsJanne Aaltonen, Timo Ahopelto, Ismo Antikainen
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Abstract
The present invention relates generally to a method of identifying data delivery parameters relating to delivery of data accessible from a network location via a communications service provider. Embodiments of the invention are particularly well suited to identifying delivery parameters when the delivery of data is metered, such as when data are delivered to terminals connected to mobile networks.
Claims24
A method comprising:
- accessing a network location to estimate an amount of data accessible through a web page at the network location, the estimate based on a probability of additional web pages being accessed through links on the web page and an average size of each additional web page, wherein the links are one of inter-web page links, external web page links, and a combination of inter-web page links and external web page links;
- receiving a quantity of resources to be allocated for delivery of the data;
- using a delivery rate specified by a communications service provider to deliver the data, the estimated amount of the data, and the allocated quantity of resources to identify a number of individual access requests initiated by a mobile device for the data that can be offset by the allocated quantity of resources when the data is delivered by the communications service provider;
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- outputting data indicative of the identified number of individual access requests.
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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- accessing a network location to estimate an amount of data accessible through a web page at the network location, the estimate based on a probability of additional web pages being accessed through links on the web page and an average size of each additional web page, wherein the links are one of inter-web page links, external web page links, and a combination of inter-web page links and external web page links;
- receiving a quantity of resources to be allocated for delivery of the data;
- using a delivery rate specified by a communications service provider to deliver the data, the estimated amount of the data, and the allocated quantity of resources to identify a number of individual access requests initiated by a mobile device for the data that can be offset by the allocated quantity of resources when the data is delivered by the communications service provider;
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- outputting data indicative of the identified number of individual access requests.
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A system comprising
- a processor coupled to a bus;
- a network interface coupled to the processor through the bus;
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- a memory coupled to the processor through a bus, the memory storing instructions to cause the processor to:
- access a network location through the network interface to estimate an amount of data accessible through a web page at the network location, the estimate based on a probability of additional web pages being accessed through links on the web page and an average size of each additional web page, wherein the links are one of inter-web page links, external web page links, and a combination of inter-web page links and external web page links;
- receive a quantity of resources to be allocated for delivery of the data;
- use a delivery rate specified by a communications service provider to deliver the data, the estimated amount of the data, and the allocated quantity of resources to identify a number of individual access requests initiated by a mobile device for the data that can be offset by the allocated quantity of resources when the data is delivered by the communications service provider;
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- output data indicative of the identified number of individual access requests.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.