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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.:

US 9723096 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Aug. 01, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 16, 2015

System, apparatus for content delivery for internet traffic and methods thereof

Applicant:

Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Inventors:

Sanqi Li, Plano, TX (US);

Tao Qian, Shanghai, CN;

Houxiao Han, Beijing, CN;

Hongbo Tian, Beijing, CN;

Kui Lin, Redwood City, CA (US);

Assignee:

Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);

Attorney:

Slater Matsil, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Ayaz Sheikh

Assistant Examiner:

Sori Aga

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/28 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 12/14 (2006.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04M 15/00 (2006.01); H04M 15/02 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04L 29/14 (2006.01); H04L 12/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/2842 (2013.01); G06F 17/30902 (2013.01); H04L 12/14 (2013.01); H04L 12/1439 (2013.01); H04L 12/1489 (2013.01); H04L 41/5067 (2013.01); H04L 43/10 (2013.01); H04L 63/30 (2013.01); H04L 65/1063 (2013.01); H04L 65/4092 (2013.01); H04L 65/60 (2013.01); H04L 67/143 (2013.01); H04L 67/2847 (2013.01); H04L 67/2885 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 69/40 (2013.01); H04M 15/83 (2013.01); H04M 15/84 (2013.01); H04M 15/844 (2013.01); H04M 15/85 (2013.01); H04M 15/852 (2013.01); H04M 15/88 (2013.01); H04M 15/888 (2013.01); H04L 41/5029 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method of serving media includes receiving a request to serve media content to an user equipment, and receiving caching information regarding the media content. The caching information includes information regarding whether the media content requested by the user equipment is cacheable. A first media server is assigned from a hierarchical set of media servers to serve the user equipment if the media content to be served is cacheable. The hierarchical set of media servers includes a plurality of first type of media servers deployed in a plurality of layer2 (L2) access networks. The user equipment is coupled to the content delivery network through a layer2 access network of the plurality of L2 access networks.

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