DETERMINING A CUSTOM CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK VIA AN INTELLIGENT SOFTWARE-DEFINED NETWORK

• US 20160380883A1
• Filed: 06/23/2015
• Published: 12/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Shaw, Venson, Dowlatkhah, Sangar, Farah, Jeffrey Joseph
• Granted Patent: US 9,860,339 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/00 Information retrieval; Database structures therefor; File system structures therefor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/00 Arrangements for maintenance, administration or management of data switching networks, e.g. of packet switching networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/40 using virtualisation of network functions or resources, e.g. SDN or NFV entities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5041 characterised by the time relationship between creation and deployment of a service
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/509 wherein the managed service relates to media content delivery, e.g. audio, video or TV
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/321 Interlayer communication protocols or service data unit [SDU] definitions; Interfaces between layers

Abstract

Determining a custom content delivery network is disclosed. This can comprise determining a custom content delivery network (CCDN) based on information determined by an intelligent software-defined network (ISDN). An ISDN can receive a content request and related information from a user equipment (UE). The ISDN can determine CCDN information that can be employed to provision a transport network corresponding to the CCDN information. The transport network can be customized based on the content request and the related information. Moreover, as the related information changes, the transport network can be correspondingly updated. Some embodiments disclose an ISDN operating on a virtual machine in a cloud-computing environment.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

receiving a request for delivery of content from a user equipment;

receiving profile information related to a condition associated with the user equipment;

determining transport network information based on the request and the profile information; and

facilitating access to the transport network information to enable the user equipment to access at least a portion of the content via a transport network provisioned based on the transport network information.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the user equipment is a mobile device.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the user equipment is not a mobile device.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the determining the transport network information is performed by a virtual machine of a network device of the system.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the determining the transport network information comprises determining whether a rule related to a bandwidth constraint determined from the profile information is satisfied.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise updating the profile information and updating the transport network information in response to determining a change in the profile information as a result of the updating the profile information.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the updating the profile information is triggered by an event associated with the user equipment.

8. The system of claim 6, wherein the updating the profile information is triggered by a recurring event.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the determining the transport network information further comprises receiving network segment information related to a network segment from a network segment information data store.

10. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a system comprising a processor, content request information related to receiving content at a user equipment;

receiving, by the system, profile information related to an environment associated with the content request information;

determining, by the system, transport network information based on the content request information and the profile information; and

facilitating, by the system, access to the transport network information to enable provisioning of the user equipment based on the transport network information.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the user equipment is a mobile device.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the method is performed at least in part by a virtual machine executing on the system.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising adapting, by the system, the profile information and in response to the profile information being determined to have been adapted, adapting, by the system, the transport network information.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the adapting the profile information is in response to an environment associated with the user equipment being determined to have changed.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the adapting the profile information is part of an iterative loop that adapts the profile information.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the adapting the profile is in response to an interaction between a user equipment and a user being determined to have changed.

17. A device, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

generating a content request;

enabling access to the content request by another device;

enabling access to device status information related to a characteristic associated with the device; and

receiving content associated with the content request via a transport network device of a transport network provisioned in response to determined network segment information, wherein the determined network segment information is based on the content request and the device status information.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein the device is a mobile device.

19. The device of claim 17, wherein the other device comprises a virtual machine operating on a remote server comprising a processor, and wherein the receiving the content via the transport network device comprises the transport network being provisioned in response to the determined network segment information determined by the virtual machine.

20. The device of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving other content associated with the content request via another transport network device provisioned in response to updated determined network segment information, and wherein the updated determined network segment information is updated based on the content request and updated device status information.