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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 21, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2018
Level 3 Communications, Llc, Broomfield, CO (US);
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);
Level 3 Communications, LLC, Broomfield, CO (US);
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.