Content management

• US 9,407,699 B2
• Filed: 01/27/2014
• Issued: 08/02/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc. (Amazon.com, Inc.)
• Inventors: Sivasubramanian, Swaminathan, Richardson, David R., Marshall, Bradley E., Scofield, Christopher L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mejia, Anthony
• Application Number:
  US14/165,329
• Publication Number:
  US 20140143320A1
• Time in Patent Office: 918 Days
• Field of Search: 709/200, 709/224, 709/226, 705/7, 705/14
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/01 Protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• 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 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5681 Pre-fetching or pre-delivering data based on network characteristics

Abstract

A system and method for management and processing of resource requests is provided. A content delivery network service provider determines a class associated with a set of client computing devices and monitors resources requests for the determined class. The content delivery network service provider then identifies at least one cache component for providing additional content, such as advertisement content or other additional content provided in anticipation of future resource requests, to client computing devices as a function of the determined class. In other embodiments, instead of cache components, the content delivery network service provider identifies a second set of client computing devices as a function of the determined class for providing the additional content information.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

dynamically determining, at a content delivery network (CDN) service provider, a second group of client computing devices based at least in part on requests to the CDN service provider originally initiated from a first group of client computing devices, wherein the second group of client computing devices is different from the first group of client computing devices;

identifying a second set of content for the second group of client computing devices based at least in part on a first group of content collectively corresponding to the first group of client computing devices, wherein the identified second set of content is different from the first group of content; and

preloading at least a portion of the identified second set of content at a cache component authorized to service the second group of client computing devices,

wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices of the CDN service provider.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the identified second set of content includes advertisement display content.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the identified second set of content includes content provided in anticipation of future content requests from the second group of client computing devices.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein each member of the second group is distinct from each member of the first group.

5. A method comprising:

correlating a second class associated with other client computing devices serviced by a cache component of a content delivery network (CDN) service provider with a first class of client computing devices as a function of requests for content originally initiated by the first class of client computing devices to the CDN service provider; and

in anticipation of subsequent requests from the other client computing devices, preloading different content at the cache component as a function of the content collectively requested by the first class of client computing devices,

wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices of the content delivery network service provider.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the different content includes advertisement content.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the class corresponds to a temporal domain.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein correlating a second class with the first class comprises matching the second class with the first class.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein each of the other client computing devices is distinct from the client computing devices of the first class.

10. A system comprising:

one or more computing devices associated with a content delivery network (CDN) service provider, wherein any one or combination of the one or more computing devices is operative to;

dynamically determine a second group of client computing devices based at least in part on requests to the CDN service provider originally initiated from a first group of client computing devices, wherein the second group of client computing devices is different from the first group of client computing devices;

identify one or more resources for the second group of client computing devices based at least in part on a first group of content collectively corresponding to the first group of client computing devices, wherein the identified one or more resources are different from the first group of content; and

preload at least one of the identified one or more resources at a cache component authorized to service the second group of client computing devices.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the identified one or more resources includes advertisement display content.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the identified one or more resources includes content provided in anticipation of future content requests from the second group of client computing devices.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein each member of the second group is distinct from each member of the first group.

14. A system comprising:

one or more computing devices associated with a content delivery network service provider, wherein any one or combination of the one or more computing devices is operative to;

correlate a second class associated with other client computing devices serviced by a cache component of a content delivery network (CDN) service provider with a first class of client computing devices as a function of requests for content originally initiated by the first class of client computing devices to the CDN service provider; and

in anticipation of subsequent requests from the other client computing devices, preload different content at the cache component as a function of the content collectively requested by the first class of client computing devices.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the different content includes advertisement content.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the class corresponds to a temporal domain.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein correlating a second class with the first class comprises matching the second class with the first class.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein each of the other client computing devices is distinct from the client computing devices of the first class.