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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2013
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Mahesh Vittal Viveganandhan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Eric Colin Friedrich, Somerville, MA (US);
Matthew Francis Caulfield, Clinton, MA (US);
Carol Etta Iturralde, Framingtonham, MA (US);
Scott C. Labrozzi, Cary, NC (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided in one example embodiment and includes generating a key associated with a virtual asset associated with content to be provided to a client device, where the key indicates at least one parameter for accessing the content; generating the virtual asset; receiving a request for the content; identifying a format being requested for the content; using the virtual asset to identify common format content to be retrieved and to identify the key; using the key to retrieve the common format content; and transforming the common format content such that it can be delivered to the client device in the format that was requested.