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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.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018

Filed:

Dec. 29, 2014
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ameetkumar Rajkumar Suri, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Georgiy Yakovlev, Pacifica, CA (US);

Assignee:

FACEBOOK, INC., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/823 (2013.01); H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 12/851 (2013.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); H04L 12/801 (2013.01); H04L 12/803 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 43/0882 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 43/0864 (2013.01); H04L 43/10 (2013.01); H04L 47/24 (2013.01); H04L 67/322 (2013.01); H04L 47/115 (2013.01); H04L 47/122 (2013.01);
Abstract

The various embodiments described herein include methods and/or systems for content delivery based on network congestion. In one aspect, a method of congestion-based content delivery includes receiving, via a network, a first request for content from a client device. The method also includes prioritizing a first type of content item over one or more other types of content items based, at least in part, on a degree of congestion of the network. The method further includes, in response to the first request, providing to the client device one or more content items of the first type in accordance with the prioritizing.


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