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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Qwilt, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Gaash Hazan, Kfra Saba, IL;
Qwilt, Inc., Redwood City, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and methods thereof provide for efficient usage of network bandwidth and ability to identify whether a client is authorized to receive such bandwidth. Content provided by a content source for a first content consumer is stored in the apparatus located in between the content source and the content consumer allowing delivery of such content to another content consumer from the apparatus thereby reducing the overall network load. For protected content, the apparatus identifies the need for authorization and provides a random identification to the target content consumer and storing that random identification as well as at least another parameter associated thereto such that when revalidation is necessary the content consumer can be validated by the apparatus.