TIERED INFRASTRUCTURE FOR HANDLING DATA

• US 20180146032A1
• Filed: 11/23/2016
• Published: 05/24/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: Parikh, Jay, Jia, Hongzhong
• Granted Patent: US 10,244,052 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/5027 the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• 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 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561

Abstract

The disclosure is directed to receiving a digitized content item that is indicated to be shared with users (e.g., all, some, or one) of a social networking system; selecting, based on one or more characteristics of the digitized content item, a second server computing device at which to further compute or store the digitized content item; and transmitting, to the second computing device, the digitized content item for storage at the second computing device. At least one of the characteristics can be a classification of a user who transmitted the digitized content item via the data communications network. By selecting second server computing devices based on characteristics, data communications network performance can be improved.

Claims

1. A method performed by a computing device, comprising:

receiving, via a data communications network at a first server computing device, a digitized content item that is indicated to be shared with users of a social network system;

selecting, based on one or more characteristics of the digitized content item, a second server computing device at which to further compute or store the digitized content item, wherein at least one of the characteristics is a classification of a user who transmitted the digitized content item via the data communications network; and

transmitting, to the second computing device, the digitized content item for storage at the second computing device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein in an event the user is classified as a celebrity user, the selecting comprises selecting the second server computing device at a higher tier than if the user is classified as a general user.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting is performed nearly contemporaneously with the receiving.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising transcoding, at a third computing device proximate to the second server computing device, the digitized content item prior to storage of the digitized content item.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the classification is a function of a number of friend connections the user has in a social graph.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the selecting further includes evaluating the internet protocol address of the computing device from which the digitized content item was received.

7. A computer-readable storage device storing instructions, the instructions comprising:

instructions for receiving, via a data communications network at a first server computing device, a digitized content item that is indicated to be shared with users of a social network system;

instructions for selecting, based on one or more characteristics of the digitized content item, a second server computing device at which to further compute or store the digitized content item, wherein at least one of the characteristics is a classification of a user who transmitted the digitized content item via the data communications network; and

instructions for transmitting, to the second computing device, the digitized content item for storage at the second computing device.

8. The computer-readable storage device of claim 7, wherein in an event the user is classified as a celebrity user, the selecting comprises selecting the second server computing device at a higher tier than if the user is classified as a general user.

9. The computer-readable storage device of claim 7, wherein the selecting is performed nearly contemporaneously with the receiving.

10. The computer-readable storage device of claim 7, further comprising instructions for transcoding, at a third computing device proximate to the second server computing device, the digitized content item prior to storage of the digitized content item.

12. The computer-readable storage device of claim 7, wherein the instructions for selecting further comprises instructions for evaluating the internet protocol address of the computing device from which the digitized content item was received.

13. A system, comprising:

a component configured to receive, via a data communications network at a first server computing device, a digitized content item that is indicated to be shared with users of a social networking system;

a component configured to select, based on one or more characteristics of the digitized content item, a second server computing device at which to further compute or store the digitized content item, wherein at least one of the characteristics is a classification of a user who transmitted the digitized content item via the data communications network; and

a component configured to transmit, to the second computing device, the digitized content item for storage at the second computing device.

11. The computer-readable storage device of claim 17, wherein the classification is a function of a number of friend connections the user has in a social graph.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein in an event the user is classified as a celebrity user, the second server computing device is selected at a higher tier than if the user is classified as a general user.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the second server computing device is selected nearly contemporaneously with the receiving.

16. The system of claim 13, further comprising a component configured to transcode, at a third computing device proximate to the second server computing device, the digitized content item prior to storage of the digitized content item.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the classification is a function of a number of friend connections the user has in a social graph.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the second server computing device is selected based on an evaluation of the internet protocol address of the computing device from which the digitized content item was received.