Service provider registration by a content broker

• US 9,444,759 B2
• Filed: 08/12/2013
• Issued: 09/13/2016
• 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: Richardson, David R., Marshall, Bradley Eugene, Sivasubramanian, Swaminathan, Saraf, Tal
• Primary Examiner(s): Hussain, Imad
• Application Number:
  US13/964,973
• Publication Number:
  US 20130332569A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,128 Days
• Field of Search: 709/217, 709/226
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

as implemented by one or more computing devices configured with a specific executable instructions;

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

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

determining, by the content broker and without further input from the content provider, that the one or more resources associated with the content provider should instead be provided by a second service provider rather than the first service provider; and

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

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

3. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein the first service provider is a CDN service provider.

4. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein the first service provider is a network storage provider.

5. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 4, wherein the second service provider is a CDN service provider.

6. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein the registration information includes an identification of the first service provider by the content provider.

7. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein determining that the one or more resources associated with the content provider should instead be provided by a second service provider rather than the first service provider is based at least in part on the registration information.

8. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1, wherein the registration information includes identification of the one or more resources to be provided by the first service provider and service provider selection criteria provided by the content provider.

9. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 8, wherein determining that the one or more resources associated with the content provider should instead be provided by a second service provider rather than the first service provider is based at least in part on the service provider selection criteria.

10. The computer-implemented method as recited in claim 1 further comprising:

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

11. A system comprising:

one or more computing devices configured to;

obtain, from a content provider, registration information at a content broker for registering one or more resources associated with the content provider with a first service provider;

cause transmission of a first service provider generation request from the content broker to the first service provider, the first service provider generation request corresponding to the registration information;

determine, by the content broker and without further input from the content provider, that the one or more resources associated with the content provider should instead be provided by a second service provider rather than the first service provider; and

cause transmission of a second service provider generation request from the content broker to the second service provider, the second service provider generation request corresponding to the registration information.

12. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein the one or more resources correspond to one or more embedded resources.

13. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein the first service provider is a CDN service provider.

14. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein the first service provider is a network storage provider.

15. The system as recited in claim 14, wherein the second service provider is a CDN service provider.

16. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein the registration information includes an identification of the first service provider by the content provider.

17. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein determining that the one or more resources associated with the content provider should instead be provided by a second service provider rather than the first service provider is based at least in part on the registration information.

18. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein the registration information includes identification of the one or more resources to be provided by the first service provider and service provider selection criteria provided by the content provider.

19. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein causing transmission of a first service provider generation request from the content broker to the first service provider comprises causing generation, by the content broker, of an API call for registering the one or more resources with the first service provider.

20. The system as recited in claim 11, wherein the one or more computing devices is further configured to:

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