US 7,840,667 B2Granted

Content delivery network service provider (CDNSP)-managed content delivery network (CDN) for network service provider (NSP)

AssigneeAkamai Technologies, Inc.

InventorsTimothy N. Weller, Charles E. Leiserson

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Abstract

A CDN service provider shares its CDN infrastructure with a network to enable a network service provider (NSP) to offer a private-labeled network content delivery network (NCDN or “private CDN”) to participating content providers. The CDNSP preferably provides the hardware, software and services required to build, deploy, operate and manage the CDN for the NCDN customer. Thus, the NCDN customer has access to and can make available to participating content providers one or more of the content delivery services (e.g., HTTP delivery, streaming media delivery, application delivery, and the like) available from the global CDN without having to provide the large capital investment, R&D expense and labor necessary to successfully deploy and operate the network itself. Rather, the global CDN service provider simply operates the private CDN for the network as a managed service.

Claims6

Dependent claims

A method of content delivery in a content delivery network (CDN), the CDN deployed, operated and managed by a content delivery network service provider (CDNSP) and comprising a set of content servers and a domain name system (DNS) associated with a CDN namespace, comprising:

establishing a private content delivery network within a portion of the CDN, the private content delivery network associated with a entity distinct from the CDNSP and comprising a subset of the content servers operated by the CDNSP, the private content delivery network further including a private CDN namespace associated therewith that is a subset of the CDN namespace, where the private content delivery network enables the entity to provide content delivery to participating content providers associated with the entity without requiring the entity to deploy, operate and manage content servers;
providing the participating content providers associated with the entity on-net content delivery over the private content delivery network;
providing the participating content providers associated with the entity off-net content delivery over the CDN on an as-needed basis;
wherein the CDNSP manages content server data collection for the private content delivery network;
wherein the CDNSP manages billing for the private content delivery network;
wherein the CDNSP manages a network operations center (NOC) for the private content delivery network;
and
wherein the CDNSP manages content storage for the private content delivery network.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 12/122,764Filed 19 May 2008 · continuation
Priority: 2 Apr 2001
Published: US 2008/0222291 A111 Sep 2008
Granted: 23 Nov 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

H04L 67/101
Server selection for load balancing: based on network conditions
G06Q 40/04
Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes: trading; Exchange, e.g. stocks, commodities, derivatives or currency…
G06Q 40/12
Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes: accounting
H04L 65/612
For supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio: for unicast

Family

Application60/280,953Us provisional application · filed 2 Apr 2001
Application10/114,080Parent of this division · filed 2 Apr 2002
Application11/636,849Parent of this continuation · filed 11 Dec 2006
US 2008/0222291 A1Pre-grant publication · published 11 Sep 2008
US 7,376,727 B2Parent of this continuation
US 7,149,797 B1Parent of this division
Application11/636,849Parent of this division
US 2007/0168517 A1Published application
US 7,840,667 B2This patent

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