Method and system for federated over-the-top content delivery
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
InventorsKevin J. Ma, Raj Nair, Robert Hickey, Daniel Biagini, Chin-Cheng Wu
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Abstract
A method is provided for managing over-the-top delivery of content through a plurality of content delivery networks (CDN). The method provided works transparently with standard HTTP servers supporting an initial request for content from a client to a first preferred CDN. If the first CDN does not have the content, the method includes provisions for the first CDN to acquire the content from a second CDN, or for the client to request the content from a second CDN directly. A system is also specified for implementing a client and server infrastructure in accordance with the provisions of the method.
Claims21
A method for distributing content to a diverse set of mobile client devices, comprising:
- acquiring the content at a server and transforming the acquired content into transformed content having a form suitable for rendering on a plurality of client devices;
- encrypting the transformed content;
- writing the transformed content to a plurality of content delivery networks;
- prioritizing the content delivery networks for delivering content to a client;
- selecting a preferred content delivery network and an alternate content delivery network based on the prioritizing;
- and
- providing identifications of the preferred content delivery network and alternative content delivery network to the client to enable the client to retrieve the content therefrom and providing a decryption key to the client to enable the client to decrypt the encrypted transformed content.
A workflow management system for controlling distribution of content to a diverse set of mobile client devices, comprising:
- computer hardware including one or more processors, memory, input/output circuitry and one or more data buses for data transfer therebetween;
- wherein the memory stores computer program instructions operative to cause the workflow management system to perform a method including:
- acquiring the content and transforming the acquired content into transformed content having a form suitable for rendering on a plurality of client devices;
- encrypting the transformed content;
- writing the transformed content to a plurality of content delivery networks;
- prioritizing the content delivery networks for delivering content to a client;
- selecting a preferred content delivery network and an alternate content delivery network based on the prioritizing;
- and
- providing identifications of the preferred content delivery network and alternative content delivery network to the client to enable the client to retrieve the content therefrom and providing a decryption key to the client to enable the client to decrypt the encrypted transformed content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.