Adaptive media content delivery network
AssigneeNeoatomic LLC
InventorsWilliam Emmett King, V, Bayan William Towfiq
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Abstract
A method including sending a media content to a target media destination through a first server and receiving a first response to the media content through a second server, where the first server is the intended receiver of the first response. A resulting triggering event is followed by the generating of a request to determine how to handle the triggering event. The request is received through a network routing control that comprises logic to generate a second response to the request. Next, the second response to the request is executed.
Claims11
A method comprising:
- receiving a connection request for communicating media content from a source media device operating in a Unicast network;
- relaying the connection request to a target media device through a first server;
- receiving a first response to the connection request from the target media device through a second server, wherein the first server and the second server are associated with a same Internet Protocol (IP) address in an Anycast network;
- the second server generating a triggering event in response to receiving the first response;
- the second server generating a request to a network routing control in the Unicast network to respond to the triggering event;
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- the network routing control reconfiguring a network route for the media content such that the second server acts as a relay for the media content.
A Unicast network system controller comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory configured with instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the network system controller to:
- relay a connection request for communicating media content from an upstream media source located in a Unicast network to a target media destination through a first server, located in an Anycast network;
- receive a request from a second server in the Anycast network indicating that the target media destination responded with a first response to the connection request through the second server, wherein the first server and the second server are associated with a same Internet Protocol (IP) address in the Anycast network;
- the network routing control configuring the Unicast network to utilize the second server as a relay for the media content.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.