Service provider registration by a content broker

• US 8,065,417 B1
• Filed: 11/17/2008
• Issued: 11/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Saraf, Tal, Richardson, David R., Marshall, Bradley E., Sivasubramanian, Swaminathan
• Primary Examiner(s): Follansbee; John
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hussain; Imad
• Application Number:
  US12/272,641
• Time in Patent Office: 1,100 Days
• Field of Search: 709/226
• US Class Current: 709/226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/70 Admission control; Resource allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1001 for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/562 Brokering proxy services
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/26241 involving the time of distribution, e.g. the best time of the day for inserting an advertisement or airing a children program
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/47202 for requesting content on demand, e.g. video on demand

Abstract

A system, method, and computer readable medium for managing registration, by a content broker, of one or more resources with one or more service providers are provided. A content broker obtains registration information for registering the one or more resources with a service provider. The registration information may include a request to publish one or more resources to a service provider, an identification of the one or more resources, service provider selection criteria provided by the content provider or otherwise selected, and the like. The content broker transmits a service provider generation request corresponding to the registration information to the service provider. Then, the content broker manages and processes data pursuant to registration of the one or more resources with the service provider. The process can further include causing the generation of a user interface by the content broker for requesting registration of the one or more resources with a service provider using a single control.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

without receipt of an initial request from a content provider to register one or more resources with a service provider, causing generation, by a content broker that currently hosts the one or more resources on behalf of the content provider, of a user interface for providing the content provider with a recommendation and opportunity to register the one or more resources with a service provider, wherein the recommendation includes identification of a recommended service provider and wherein the recommended service provider is selected by the content broker based on an analysis of prior requests to the content broker for the one or more resources;

obtaining registration information at the content broker for registering the one or more resources associated with the content provider with a service provider, the registration information including a request by the content provider to register the one or more resources with a service provider, identification of the one or more resources to be provided by a service provider, and service provider selection criteria;

transmitting a service provider generation request from the content broker to the service provider, the service provider generation request corresponding to the registration information; and

processing data corresponding to the registration of the one or more resources with the service provider.

2. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more resources correspond to one or more embedded resources.

3. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the one or more resources correspond to a domain associated with the content provider.

4. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the service provider is a CDN service provider.

5. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the service provider is a network storage provider.

6. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the registration information further includes an identification of a particular service provider by the content provider.

7. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising selecting a service provider by the content broker on behalf of the content provider based on the registration information.

8. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein processing data corresponding to the registration of the one or more resources with the service provider comprises upon registration of the one or more resources with the service provider, notifying the content provider of the registration of the one or more resources with the service provider.

9. The method as recited in claim 8, wherein processing data corresponding to the registration of the one or more resources with the service provider further comprises sending a request from the content broker for the content provider to modify one or more resource identifiers corresponding to the one or more resources so that subsequent requests for the one or more resources are directed to the service provider.

10. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein processing data corresponding to the registration of the one or more resources with the service provider comprises causing the content provider to modify one or more resource identifiers corresponding to the one or more resources so that subsequent requests for the one or more resources are directed to the content broker.

11. The method as recited in claim 10, wherein processing data corresponding to the registration of the one or more resources with the service provider comprises obtaining, at the content broker, an alternative resource identifier corresponding to each of the one or more resources, wherein the alternative resource identifier corresponds to an identification of the service provider for providing the associated resource.

12. The method as recited in claim 10, wherein processing data corresponding to the registration of the one or more resources with the service provider comprises obtaining, at the content broker, an IP address corresponding to a storage component of the service provider for each of the one or more resources.

13. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:

obtaining a DNS query from a client computing device at a first DNS server of the content broker, wherein the DNS query corresponds to a requested resource associated with an original resource identifier provided by the content provider and wherein the content broker is different from the content provider;

determining whether the first DNS server is authoritative to the DNS query;

obtaining an alternative resource identifier if the DNS server is determined not to be authoritative, wherein the alternative resource identifier includes information for causing a DNS query to resolve to a domain corresponding to the service provider and request routing information not included in the original resource identifier; and

transmitting the alternative resource identifier to the client computing device.

14. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the service provider selection criteria comprises a service level plan provided by a service provider.

15. The method as recited in claim 1, wherein the service provider selection criteria comprises a regional level plan provided by a service provider.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface includes identification of a number of times each of the one or more resources has been requested by a client computing device.

17. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface includes an option to register the one or more resources with a plurality of service providers.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the user interface includes an option to register the one or more resources with a plurality of types of service providers.

19. A method comprising:

determining that use of a service provider should be recommended by a content broker to a content provider based on an evaluation of past requests made to the content broker for the one or more resources, wherein the one or more resources are stored and provided by the content broker on behalf of the content provider;

providing an identification of a recommended service provider to the content provider from the content broker without receiving a prior request from the content provider to use a service provider to provide at least one of the one or more resources;

obtaining registration information at the content broker for registering one or more resources associated with the content provider with a service provider; and

transmitting a service provider generation request from the content broker to the service provider, the service provider generation request corresponding to the registration information.

20. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein the one or more resources correspond to one or more embedded resources.

21. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein the one or more resources correspond to a domain associated with the content provider.

22. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein the service provider is a CDN service provider.

23. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein the service provider is a network storage provider.

24. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein the registration information includes an identification of a particular service provider by the content provider.

25. The method as recited in claim 19 further comprising selecting a service provider by the content broker on behalf of the content provider based on the registration information.

26. The method as recited in claim 19, wherein the registration information includes identification of the one or more resources to be provided by the service provider and service provider selection criteria provided by the content provider.

27. The method as recited in claim 26, wherein the service provider selection criteria comprises a service level plan corresponding to the service provider.

28. The method as recited in claim 26, wherein the service provider selection criteria comprises a regional level plan corresponding to the service provider.

29. The method as recited in claim 19 further comprising:

causing generation, by the content broker, of a user interface for registering the one or more resources with a service provider.

30. The method as recited in claim 29, wherein the user interface provides an option for a content provider to select to register with a service provider by selection of a single control.

31. The method as recited in claim 29, wherein the user interface provides identification of one or more recommended service providers.

32. The method as recited in claim 29 further comprising:

obtaining a service provider inquiry from a content provider at the content broker, wherein the service provider inquiry corresponds to an initial request to register one or more resources with a service provider.

33. The method as recited in claim 19 further comprising:

causing generation, by the content broker, of an API call for registering the one or more resources with a service provider.

34. The method as recited in claim 19 further comprising:

upon registration of the one or more resources with the service provider, notifying the content provider of the registration of the one or more resources with the service provider.

35. The method as recited in claim 19 further comprising:

sending a request from the content broker for the content provider to modify one or more resource identifiers corresponding to the one or more resources so that subsequent requests for the one or more resources are directed to the service provider.

36. The method as recited in claim 19 further comprising:

causing the content provider to modify one or more resource identifiers corresponding to the one or more resources so that subsequent requests for the one or more resources are directed to the content broker.

37. The method as recited in claim 36 further comprising:

obtaining, at the content broker, an alternative resource identifier corresponding to each of the one or more resources, wherein the alternative resource identifier corresponds to an identification of the service provider for providing the associated resource.

38. The method as recited in claim 36 further comprising:

obtaining, at the content broker, an IP address corresponding to a storage component of the service provider for each of the one or more resources.

39. A non-transitory computer readable medium for storing computer executable components for managing use of a service provider to transmit content on behalf of a content provider, the computer readable medium comprising:

a first component for;

identifying one or more resources associated with a content provider;

determining that use of a service provider should be recommended by a content broker to the content provider based on an evaluation of past requests made to the content broker for the one or more resources, wherein the one or more resources are stored by the content broker on behalf of the content provider; and

providing an identification of a service provider to the content provider from the content broker without receiving a prior request from the content provider to use a service provider to provide at least one of the one or more resources; and

a second component that when selected causes the content broker to use a service provider to transmit the one or more resources on behalf of the content provider.

40. The non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 39, wherein the first component further comprises information for identifying a current storage location of each of the one or more resources.

41. The non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 39, wherein the first component further comprises information for identifying a number of prior requests for each of the one or more resources.

42. The non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 39 further comprising:

a third component for obtaining service provider selection criteria from the content provider.

43. The non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 42, wherein the service provider selection criteria comprises a desired regional service plan associated with the service provider.

44. The non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 42, wherein the service provider selection criteria comprises a desired service level plan associated with the service provider.

45. The non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 39 further comprising:

a third component for identifying one or more recommended service providers based on information associated with the one or more resources.

46. The non-transitory computer readable medium as recited in claim 39 further comprising:

a third component for providing the content provider with an updated service provider recommendation based on information associated with prior routing of the one or more resources, wherein the update is provided without a request for the update from the content provider.