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Private content distribution network

  • US 9,954,948 B2
  • Filed: 03/30/2015
  • Issued: 04/24/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method performed by one or more computing devices, the method comprising:

  • identifying Internet of Things (IoT) devices requesting to join a local area network at a location;

    obtaining operational information about the IoT devices;

    establishing a private content delivery network (PCDN) for the IoT devices at the location utilizing the local area network;

    receiving a request for content from a requesting IoT device;

    determining whether the content already exists on the PCDN;

    in an instance where the content does not already exist on the PCDN, obtaining the content from an entity that is external to the PCDN without disclosing information about the requesting IoT device to the entity that is external to the PCDN;

    dividing the content into blocks;

    storing different blocks of the content among different IoT devices; and

    , satisfying the request for content by causing individual blocks of the content to be sent to the requesting IoT device, while buffering remaining individual blocks of the content among the different IoT devices until the remaining individual blocks of the content are subsequently sent to the requesting IoT device.

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