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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2014
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Shaheen A Gandhi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Luiz Fernando Scheidegger, Redwood City, CA (US);
Breno Pompeu Roberto, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Peter Avelino Ruibal, San Mateo, CA (US);
Marcus Erwin Schwartz, Oakland, CA (US);
FACEBOOK, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques to transform network resource requests to zero rated network requests are described. Some embodiments are particularly directed to techniques transform network resource requests on a cellular network to zero rating by replacing the destination of the request with a zero-rated source for the network resource. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a data store and a network access component. The data store may be operative to store a plurality of zero-rating rewrite rules. The network access component may be operative to receive a network request from an application component on the mobile device, the network request for access to a network resource; compare the network resource to the plurality of zero-rating rewrite rules to identify a zero-rating rewrite rule matching the network resource; transform the network request to a zero-rated network request for the network resource using the identified zero-rating rewrite rule; and perform the zero-rated network request. Other embodiments are described and claimed.