US 10,255,229 B2Granted

Media resource storage and management

AssigneeLevel 3 Communications, LLC

InventorsWilliam Crowder, Jeffrey Koller, David Fullagar

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Abstract

Provided are computer-implemented methods and systems for performing media resource storage and management. The computer-implemented method and system implemented as a request manager is capable of monitoring requests for media resources in a content delivery network. For each monitored request, the request manager determines whether to generate a multifile for the requested media resource. For example, the request manager can first determine whether the media resource is eligible for multifile generation. If eligible, the request manager then determines whether the media resource has reached a popularity threshold. If the media resource has reached the popularity threshold, the request manager initiates generation of the multifile for the requested media resource. Generally, the generated multifile is stored in a storage system associated with the content delivery network.

Claims8

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for reducing disk read time in a cache server, the method comprising:

determining that resources are eligible to be grouped into a common file when a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) associated with the resources matches a regular expression, wherein the resources comprise portions of a media object having a sequential relationship among the resources;
determining that the resources exceed a popularity threshold;
at the cache server, iteratively requesting the resources to be grouped into the common file;
building, based on determining that the resources are eligible to be grouped into the common file and that the resources exceed the popularity threshold, the common file as a contiguous grouping of the requested resources according to the sequential relationship among the resources;
and
initiating at least part of the common file to be served by reading at least some of the requested resources from the common file in a contiguous manner,
wherein the common file is associated with metadata that comprises a pointer to the common file, an offset to the requested resources within the common file, and a size of the resources within the common file.

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Facts

Application: 13/342,522Filed 3 Jan 2012 · division
Priority: 24 Apr 2009
Published: US 2012/0102181 A126 Apr 2012
Granted: 9 Apr 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

G06F 15/16
Digital computers in general ; Data processing equipment in general: combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an…
G06F 15/173
Interprocessor communication: using an interconnection network, e.g. matrix, shuffle, pyramid, star, snowflake
G06F 16/10
Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor: file systems; File servers
G06F 16/16
File systems; File servers: file or folder operations, e.g. details of user interfaces specifically adapted to file systems

Family

Application61/172,638Us provisional application · filed 24 Apr 2009
Application12/767,338Parent of this division · filed 26 Apr 2010
US 2012/0102181 A1Pre-grant publication · published 26 Apr 2012
US 8,140,672 B2Parent of this division
US 2010/0325264 A1Published application
US 10,255,229 B2This patent

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