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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 13, 2018
Applicant:

Level 3 Communications, Llc, Broomfield, CO (US);

Inventors:

Laurence R. Lipstone, Calabasas, CA (US);

William Crowder, Camarillo, CA (US);

Andrew Swart, Pennington, NJ (US);

Christopher Newton, Westlake Village, CA (US);

Lewis Robert Varney, Oak Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

Level 3 Communications, LLC, Broomfield, CO (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/60 (2022.01); H04L 65/612 (2022.01); H04L 65/80 (2022.01); H04L 41/5041 (2022.01); H04L 41/50 (2022.01); H04L 67/51 (2022.01); H04L 61/4511 (2022.01); H04L 61/00 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/32 (2013.01); H04L 41/509 (2013.01); H04L 41/5041 (2013.01); H04L 65/4084 (2013.01); H04L 65/80 (2013.01); H04L 67/16 (2013.01); H04L 61/1511 (2013.01); H04L 61/35 (2013.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method in a content delivery network (CDN) comprising multiple content delivery (CD) services including at least one beacon service, the method comprising: at particular CD service in the CDN: (A) obtaining and responding to at least one first request; (B) obtaining and responding to at least one second request; and (C) making a beacon request to a beacon CD service, the beacon request including particular information about: (i) the at least one first request, and (ii) the at least one second request, wherein at least some of the particular information is encoded in the beacon request, wherein the beacon request comprises an HTTP request.


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