Akamai Technologies, Inc.

Alcatel Lucent

Verivue, Inc.

Sonus Networks, Inc.

Ganesh Pai

Michael G Hluchyj

Umamaheswar Reddy

Santosh Krishnan

Christopher Lawler

Sudhakar S Valluru

Parag Narayanrao Pote

Sunil Menon

Luqmanji 2033 Sobha Daisy Apartments Burhanuddin

Leon Nichols

Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for policy-based content insertion. A client device transmits to a content server a request for the delivery of content. The content server modifies the request based on an ingress policy. The content server transmits the modified request to a second server where the second server processes the request. The second server transmits a reply to the modified request to the content server. The reply includes a content insertion instruction. The content server transmits the content to the client device based on the content insertion instruction and/or one or more egress policies.

Methods and apparatus for providing content delivery instructions to a content server

Providing fail_over call processing services by sniffing signaling traffic, without the overhead of configuring/provisioning terminals (phones), call servers etc. According to an aspect of the present invention, the integrated device operates as a backup call server when external call servers are unavailable. In one embodiment, the integrated device checks whether a first call server, to which a call setup request is destined to, is available, and forwards the request to another call server if the first call server is unavailable. According to another aspect, the integrated device detects the access information of each terminal registering with a call server, and uses the detected information to provide responses to call setup requests when the call servers are unavailable. As a result, the IP phones in a local network can continue initiating calls even when call servers located at remote sites, become unavailable.

Enabling VoIP calls to be initiated when a call server is unavailable

In one example, multimedia content is requested from a plurality of storage modules. Each storage module retrieves the requested parts, which are typically stored on a plurality of storage devices at each storage module. Each storage module determines independently when to retrieve the requested parts of the data file from storage and transmits those parts from storage to a data queue. Based on a capacity of a delivery module and/or the data rate associated with the request, each storage module transmits the parts of the data file to the delivery module. The delivery module generates a sequenced data segment from the parts of the data file received from the plurality of storage modules and transmits the sequenced data segment to the requester.

Storage of data utilizing scheduling queue locations associated with different data rates

Policy-based content insertion

Asynchronous and distributed storage of data

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Lexington, MA, United States of America

Ganesh Pai