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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2003
Applicants:
Scott K. Brown, Sterling, VA (US);
Keith Peters, San Carlos, CA (US);
David L. Biderman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inventors:
Scott K. Brown, Sterling, VA (US);
Keith Peters, San Carlos, CA (US);
David L. Biderman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Assignee:
AOL Inc., Dulles, VA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Access to content may be enabled by receiving an instruction indicating a client request to access content, accessing a list of content sources capable of rendering the content for which access is requested by the client, determining a performance metric for at least two of the content sources, and selecting among the content sources based on the performance metric to identify a content source to be accessed by the client.