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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:
Aug. 29, 2023

Filed:

Oct. 27, 2020
Applicant:

Akamai Technologies Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Dmitry Sotnikov, Rishon Lezion, IL;

Mangesh Kasbekar, New York, NY (US);

Kfir Zigdon, Nehusha, IL;

Assignee:

Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/231 (2011.01); H04N 21/2183 (2011.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04N 21/2665 (2011.01); H04N 21/226 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/23106 (2013.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); H04N 21/2183 (2013.01); H04N 21/226 (2013.01); H04N 21/2665 (2013.01);
Abstract

Origin offload is a key performance indicator of a content delivery network (CDN). This patent document presents unique methods and systems for measuring origin offload and applying those measurements to improve the offload. The techniques presented herein enable resource-efficient measurement of origin offload by individual servers and aggregation and analysis of such measurements to produce significant insights. The teachings hereof can be used to better identify root causes of suboptimal offload performance, to tune CDN settings and configurations, and to modify network operations, deployment and/or capacity planning. In addition, discussed herein are improved metrics showing offload in relation to the maximum achievable offload for the particular traffic being served.


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