公开(公告)号：US20230018743A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-19

申请号：US17946423

申请日：2022-09-16

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Christopher Newton ,  William R. Power

IPC: H04L67/02 ,  G06F16/48 ,  G06F16/955 ,  H04L67/1021 ,  H04L61/4511

Abstract: A content delivery method, and related apparatus, that involves the operations of receiving a request for a content resource including at least one embedded resource with a tag. Upon identification of the tag, using at least one delivery parameter to generate a modified embedded resource. Embedding the modified embedded resource in a content resource, such as an HTML document. Delivering, such as in response to request from a browser, the content resource with the modified embedded resource.

公开(公告)号：US20220405376A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-22

申请号：US17892198

申请日：2022-08-22

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Christopher Newton

IPC: G06F21/41 ,  H04L9/40 ,  G06F21/62 ,  G06F21/45

Abstract: Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for associating a first account with a second account, the first account being hosted by a first server, the second account being hosted by a second server, including but not limited to, authenticating, by the first server, first login credentials associated with the first account, wherein the first login credentials are received from a user device, receiving, by the first server from the user device, second login credentials associated with the second account, sending, by the first server, the second login credentials to the second server for authentication, in response to determining that the second login credentials are authenticated by the second server, associating, by the first server, the first account with the second account, and connecting, by the first server to the second server, to allow the user device to access services commensurate with the second account without prompting the user device for the second login credentials.

公开(公告)号：US20220385626A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-01

申请号：US17884612

申请日：2022-08-10

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Christopher Newton

IPC: H04L61/4511 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/1004 ,  H04L61/25 ,  H04L61/3015 ,  H04L61/50

Abstract: A content provider has a plurality of content provider domain names, and a content delivery network (CDN) allocates a plurality of CDN domain names to the particular content provider. The content provider domain names are mapped to the CDN domain names. CDN domain names are bound to corresponding CDN clusters. The binding of the of CDN domain names to corresponding CDN clusters is modified.

公开(公告)号：US11423136B2

公开(公告)日：2022-08-23

申请号：US17159512

申请日：2021-01-27

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Christopher Newton

IPC: G06F21/41 ,  H04L9/40 ,  G06F21/62 ,  G06F21/45 ,  G06F21/10

Abstract: Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for associating a first account with a second account, the first account being hosted by a first server, the second account being hosted by a second server, including but not limited to, authenticating, by the first server, first login credentials associated with the first account, wherein the first login credentials are received from a user device, receiving, by the first server from the user device, second login credentials associated with the second account, sending, by the first server, the second login credentials to the second server for authentication, in response to determining that the second login credentials are authenticated by the second server, associating, by the first server, the first account with the second account, and connecting, by the first server to the second server, to allow the user device to access services commensurate with the second account without prompting the user device for the second login credentials.

公开(公告)号：US20220191166A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-16

申请号：US17687361

申请日：2022-03-04

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Christopher Newton

IPC: H04L61/4511 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L101/30 ,  H04L47/70 ,  H04L61/30 ,  H04L67/60

Abstract: A content delivery method including the operations of receiving a uniform resource locator resolution request at an authoritative name server for a domain where the uniform resource resolution request is received based, at least in part, on a host name of the uniform resource resolution request where the host name is uniquely related to a resource associated with the uniform resource resolution request. The method further including the operation of tracking a popularity of the resource based on the host name uniquely related to the resource and providing a location within a network capable of delivering the resource where the provided location is based on the popularity of the resource.

公开(公告)号：US11323510B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-03

申请号：US16987462

申请日：2020-08-07

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Maksim Yevmenkin ,  David Fullagar ,  Christopher Newton ,  Jeffrey Koller

IPC: G06F15/173 ,  H04L67/101 ,  H04L61/2521 ,  H04L67/1023 ,  H04L67/568 ,  H04L67/1061 ,  H04L67/1001 ,  H04L67/141 ,  H04L61/5007 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/1036 ,  H04L69/326 ,  H04L67/1014

Abstract: A load-balancing cluster includes a switch having a plurality of ports; and a plurality of servers connected to at least some of the plurality of ports of the switch. Each server is addressable by the same virtual Internet Protocol (VIP) address. Each server in the cluster has a mechanism constructed and adapted to respond to connection requests at the VIP by selecting one of the plurality of servers to handle that connection, wherein the selecting is based, at least in part, on a given function of information used to request the connection; and a firewall mechanism constructed and adapted to accept all requests for the VIP address for a particular connection only on the server that has been selected to handle that particular connection. The selected server determines whether it is responsible for the request and may hand it off to another cluster member.

公开(公告)号：US20210377209A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-02

申请号：US17402678

申请日：2021-08-16

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Christopher Newton

IPC: H04L29/12 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: A content provider has a plurality of content provider domain names, and a content delivery network (CDN) allocates a plurality of CDN domain names to the particular content provider. The content provider domain names are mapped to the CDN domain names. CDN domain names are bound to corresponding CDN clusters. The binding of the of CDN domain names to corresponding CDN clusters is modified.

公开(公告)号：US11134033B2

公开(公告)日：2021-09-28

申请号：US16849444

申请日：2020-04-15

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Christopher Newton

IPC: H04L12/26 ,  H04L12/861 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: A computer-implemented method on a device in a content delivery (CD) network. The device has hardware including storage with at least one first class of storage and at least one second class of storage, the first class of storage being faster than the second class of storage. A first portion of the first class of storage is allocated for log data, and a second portion of the second class of storage is allocated for log data. The method includes obtaining log event data from at least one component or service on the device that is to be delivered to a component or service on a distinct device. Each log event data item has a priority. If a connection to an external location is lost, at least some of the log event data items are selectively stored in the storage, wherein the storing is based on priority of the log event data items. Otherwise, if the connection is not lost, at least some of the log event data items are sent to the at least one external location.

公开(公告)号：US20210144423A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-13

申请号：US17151359

申请日：2021-01-18

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Christopher Newton ,  David Fullagar

IPC: H04N21/24 ,  H04N21/231 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for dynamic binding in the context of content delivery. For example, the methods and systems may be implemented as a dynamic binding process that maps a content provider to a first set of content servers in a content distribution network. The dynamic binding process may then facilitate the content to be received from the content provider so that the content can be distributed by the first set of content servers in the content distribution network. The dynamic binding process further monitors network traffic associated with the content from the content provider and determines at least one metric associated with the network traffic. Additionally, the dynamic binding process can remap the content provider to a second set of content servers in the content distribution network based on at least one of the metrics.

公开(公告)号：US20210051194A1

公开(公告)日：2021-02-18

申请号：US17087672

申请日：2020-11-03

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： William Crowder ,  Christopher Newton

IPC: H04L29/08

Abstract: A content delivery (CD) network delivers content on behalf of multiple content providers. A method includes determining that certain content is trending in a first geographic region during a first time period; and, based on the determining, causing the certain content to be prefetched by the CDN in a second geographic region by a given time after said first time period, wherein, during the first time period, the time in the second geographic region is earlier than the time in the first geographic region.