Accelerated network delivery of channelized content

• US 10,601,943 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2014
• Issued: 03/24/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pavlov Media, Inc. (Wavelength Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Pavlov Media, Inc. (Wavelength Corp.)
• Inventors: Wyatt, Bartow, Scifres, Mark
• Primary Examiner(s): Ye, Zi
• Application Number:
  US14/192,292
• Publication Number:
  US 20140244778A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,217 Days
• Field of Search: 709213, 709205, 709226, 709203, 709219, 4554563
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9574 of access to content, e.g. by caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching

Abstract

An accelerated delivery system for network content comprises local content storage and an associated local network appliance deployed proximate to at least one, and in some embodiments many, consumer devices. The local network appliance communicates with the consumer devices, and also communicates over the internet with original content servers and, importantly, a central processing cloud, to maintain a store of content that consumers are predicted to want to download.

Claims

1. An accelerated network delivery system for providing channelized content to an end user device connected to a proximately located local network appliance at accelerated data rates without at least some of the delays and latency associated with conventional internet downloads comprised of

a local network appliance geographically proximate to a plurality of end user devices, the local network appliance having multiple processors and large internal memory for processing content requests from end users such that the local network appliance and the plurality of end user devices form a geographically cohesive edge network, the content requests configured to enable the requested content to be assigned an ID and to be analyzed by the local network appliance for relevance to a content channel of a plurality of content channels where relevance is determined using a plurality of the group comprising demographic information, server system relevance, user system relevance, content publisher relevance, media type relevance, ISP vertical relevance, socio-economic relevance, and geographical relevance with respect to the geographically cohesive edge network such that the ID of at least some requested content analyzed as relevant is associated with at least one previously aggregated content channel of the plurality of content channels and create a new channel to be associated with the requested content in the event that no channel is deemed relevant to the requested content,

a long term storage device associated with the local network appliance for caching at least some requested content as part of a content channel of the plurality of content channels, and

a high-speed network connection for accelerated delivery of the requested content from the geographically proximate local network appliance to the end user making the content request.

2. The accelerated network delivery system of claim 1 wherein the local network appliance comprises a plurality of network appliances.

3. The accelerated network delivery system of claim 1 wherein the plurality is at least three.

4. The accelerated network delivery system of claim 1 wherein the plurality is at least four.

5. The accelerated network delivery system of claim 1 wherein the local network appliance is configured to redirect at least some content requests to a web proxy and to control communications between end user devices and at least some internet cloud services.

6. The accelerated network delivery system of claim 5 further comprising a remote server in the internet cloud different from the original content server and configured to perform the analysis of relevance.

7. The accelerated network delivery system of claim 6 wherein the analysis of relevance comprises a weighted average of the plurality.

8. The accelerated network delivery system of claim 1 wherein the analysis of relevance comprises a weighted average of the plurality.

9. A method for delivering web content comprising:

receiving at a geographically proximate edge network a content request from a requestor,

assigning, from within a the geographically proximate edge network, an ID to content requested in the content request,

analyzing the content request to determine whether the requested content is included within a previously aggregated content channel of a plurality of content channels and, if not, whether the content request is relevant to a content channel of the plurality of content channels, wherein a content channel comprises content aggregated and distributed together based on correlation with a select user group or content producer and relevance is determined using a plurality of a group comprising demographic information, server system relevance, user system relevance, content publisher relevance, media type relevance, ISP vertical relevance, socio-economic relevance, and geographical relevance with respect to a geographically proximate edge network,

associating with at least one content channel of the plurality of content channels the ID of requested content determined to have sufficient relevance to the content channel and create a new channel to be associated with the requested content in the event that no channel is deemed relevant to the requested content,

providing at the geographically proximate edge network a local channel cache comprised of at least a portion of the content of the plurality of content channels,

determining whether a the local channel cache comprises a portion or all of the requested content, and if so, then fetching the locally available content from the local channel cache, and if not, then fetching the portion that is not locally available from a publisher,

constructing at the geographically proximate edge network a response comprising the fetched content, and sending the response to the requester of the content from the geographically proximate edge network via a high speed data link.

10. The method for delivering web content of claim 9 further comprising the steps of redirecting at least some content requests to a web proxy and controlling communications between an end user device and a remote server accessible via an internet link.

11. A method for high speed delivery of web content to an end user comprising:

receiving at a geographically proximate edge network associated with the requestor a content request from a requestor,

assigning at the geographically proximate edge network an ID to content requested by the content request,

analyzing the content request to determine whether the requested content is relevant to a content channel of a plurality of content channels, wherein a content channel comprises content aggregated and distributed to a geographically cohesive edge network and relevance is determined using a weighted average of a plurality of a group comprising demographic information, server system relevance, user system relevance, content publisher relevance, media type relevance, ISP vertical relevance, socio-economic relevance, and geographical relevance with respect to the geographically cohesive edge network,

associating with a content channel the ID of requested content determined to have sufficient relevance to the content channel and create a new channel to be associated with the requested content in the event that no channel is deemed relevant to the requested content,

providing at the associated geographically proximate edge network a local channel cache comprised of at least a portion of the content of the plurality of content channels,

determining whether a local channel cache comprises a portion or all of the requested content, and if so, then fetching the locally available content from the local channel cache, and if not, then fetching from a publisher the portion that is not locally available,

constructing at the associated geographically proximate edge network a response comprising the fetched content, and

sending the response to the requester of the content from the associated geographically proximate edge network via a high speed data link.

12. The method for delivering web content of claim 11 wherein the plurality is at least three.

13. The method for delivering web content of claim 11 wherein the plurality is at least four.

14. The method for delivering web content of claim 11 further comprising the steps of redirecting at least some content requests to a web proxy and controlling communications between end user devices and at least some internet cloud services.

15. The method for delivering web content of claim 11 further comprising the step of caching content having a time-stamp condition in the local channel cache before the time-stamp condition is satisfied to ensure availability of the time-stamped content to a requestor promptly after the time-stamp condition is satisfied.