公开(公告)号：US20210150017A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-20

申请号：US17159512

申请日：2021-01-27

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Christopher Newton

IPC: G06F21/41 ,  H04L29/06 ,  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：US20200374341A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-26

申请号：US16991545

申请日：2020-08-12

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Christopher Newton

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  H04L29/12

Abstract: A computer-implemented method in a content delivery network (CDN), wherein the CDN delivers content on behalf of at least one content provider. The method includes: a first server: receiving a request from a client for particular content; determining at least one delivery server in the CDN; migrating the request to the at least one delivery server; and then providing the least one delivery server with first network traffic from the client. Then a second server, distinct from the first server, determines information about the least one delivery server; and then, based on the determining, provides the least one delivery server with second network traffic from the client.

公开(公告)号：US20200351338A1

公开(公告)日：2020-11-05

申请号：US16934506

申请日：2020-07-21

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Christopher Newton

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/761

Abstract: Examples described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for a Content Distribution Network (CDN) node of a CDN to facilitate communication among two or more clients, including but not limited to determining, by the CDN node, that the two or more clients are connected to the CDN node for accessing content data originating from an origin server, receiving, by the CDN node, a message from a first client of the two or more clients, the message is to be routed to at least one second client of the two or more clients, and sending, by the CDN node, the message to the at least one second client without routing the message to the origin server.

公开(公告)号：US10819774B2

公开(公告)日：2020-10-27

申请号：US16724809

申请日：2019-12-23

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： William R. Power ,  Christopher Newton ,  Laurence Lipstone ,  William Crowder

IPC: H04L29/08

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, in a content delivery (CD) network that delivers content on behalf of multiple content providers. The method includes, at a server in the CDN, wherein the server is currently processing at least one other request in at least one other session: receiving a connection request from a client, the connection request being associated with a corresponding content request; determining whether handling the content request will cause the server to become overloaded; and, based on the determining in (B) and on information about the content request, conditionally (i) accepting the content request, and (ii) terminating or throttling at least one session on the server.

公开(公告)号：US10749945B2

公开(公告)日：2020-08-18

申请号：US15727765

申请日：2017-10-09

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Christopher Newton

IPC: G06F15/173 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L29/12

Abstract: A computer-implemented method in a content delivery network (CDN), wherein the CDN delivers content on behalf of at least one content provider. The method includes: a first server: receiving a request from a client for particular content; determining at least one delivery server in the CDN; migrating the request to the at least one delivery server; and then providing the least one delivery server with first network traffic from the client. Then a second server, distinct from the first server, determines information about the least one delivery server; and then, based on the determining, provides the least one delivery server with second network traffic from the client.

公开(公告)号：US10715481B2

公开(公告)日：2020-07-14

申请号：US16538355

申请日：2019-08-12

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Christopher Newton

IPC: H04L29/12 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/911

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：US10701149B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-30

申请号：US14307429

申请日：2014-06-17

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Lewis Robert Varney ,  Laurence R. Lipstone ,  William Crowder ,  Andrew Swart ,  Christopher Newton

IPC: G06F15/177 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L12/26

Abstract: A framework supporting content delivery and comprising a plurality of devices, each device configured to run at least one content delivery (CD) service of a plurality of CD services, wherein the plurality of CD services comprise: collector services, reducer services, origin services, and control services; and wherein at least some of the plurality of devices run origin services, and wherein the origin services running on the at least some of the plurality of devices comprise at least one origin services network. At least one origin service is configured to provide persistent origin that is locally and/or globally addressable.

公开(公告)号：US20200186492A1

公开(公告)日：2020-06-11

申请号：US16793462

申请日：2020-02-18

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Christopher Newton ,  Hong Zhu

IPC: H04L29/12 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: A computer-implemented method in a content delivery network (CDN), wherein the CDN delivers content on behalf of at least one content provider. The CDN includes a rendezvous system that selects CDN servers for clients. In response to a request by a rendezvous mechanism in the rendezvous system, a first given function is evaluated. Based on the outcome of the evaluating, the rendezvous mechanism uses either a first table or a second table. The first table was generated by a first table generation mechanism for use by said rendezvous mechanism to select CDN servers for clients, and the second table was generated by a second table generation mechanism for use by the rendezvous mechanism to select CDN servers for clients.

公开(公告)号：US20200128068A1

公开(公告)日：2020-04-23

申请号：US16724809

申请日：2019-12-23

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： William R. Power ,  Christopher Newton ,  Laurence Lipstone ,  William Crowder

IPC: H04L29/08

Abstract: A computer-implemented method, in a content delivery (CD) network that delivers content on behalf of multiple content providers. The method includes, at a server in the CDN, wherein the server is currently processing at least one other request in at least one other session: receiving a connection request from a client, the connection request being associated with a corresponding content request; determining whether handling the content request will cause the server to become overloaded; and, based on the determining in (B) and on information about the content request, conditionally (i) accepting the content request, and (ii) terminating or throttling at least one session on the server.

公开(公告)号：US20200028754A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-23

申请号：US16587881

申请日：2019-09-30

Applicant: Level 3 Communications, LLC

Inventor： Christopher Newton

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  H04L29/12 ,  G06F17/24 ,  H04L12/741 ,  H04L12/911 ,  G06Q20/12 ,  H04L12/927

Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve provisioning customers of an aggregator, such as a reseller, of a content delivery network (CDN). In one aspect, content requests to the CDN are processed in accordance with the virtual IP (VIP) address at which the request was received, according to a property template bound to the VIP where the template is selected by the customer and only involves discrete parameters for the reseller. In another aspect, cache fills of the network are processed without direct knowledge of the customer origin through a combination of some request attribute, e.g., alias host of the customer, and an attribute of the reseller to make a DNS request to a name server outside the CDN. Another aspect involves receiving a property template selection, an origin and an alias from a customer of the reseller, and providing appropriate DNS entries to validate the customer and provide origin information to the CDN.