Content management

• US 8,639,817 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2012
• Issued: 01/28/2014
• 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:
  US13/720,955
• Publication Number:
  US 20130110916A1
• Time in Patent Office: 405 Days
• Field of Search: 709/200, 709/224, 709/226, 705/7, 705/14
• US Class Current: 709/226
• 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:

monitoring, at a content delivery network service provider, requests originally initiated from a first group of client computing devices, wherein the content delivery network service provider hosts content on behalf of a content provider;

associating content corresponding to the monitored requests with the first group of client computing devices to determine a first group of content collectively corresponding to the first group;

dynamically determining a second group of client computing devices based at least in part on the requests from the 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 the first group of content, 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 content delivery network 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:

obtaining a request for content originally initiated from a first client computing device at a content delivery network service provider, wherein the content delivery network service provider hosts content on behalf of a content provider;

determining a class of client computing devices associated with the first client computing device;

associating the class of client computing devices with the requested content;

correlating a second class associated with other client computing devices serviced by a cache component of the content delivery network service provider with the first class of client computing devices as a function of requests made by the first class of client computing devices to the content delivery network 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 service provider, wherein any one or combination of the one or more computing devices is operable to;

monitor resource requests originally initiated from a first group of client computing devices, wherein the content delivery network service provider hosts content on behalf of a content provider;

associate content corresponding to the monitored resource requests with the first group of client computing devices to determine a first group of content collectively corresponding to the first group;

dynamically determine a second group of client computing devices based at least in part on the requests from the 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 a second group of client computing devices based at least in part on the first group of content, wherein the one or more resources for the second group is identified from another portion of the content hosted on behalf of the content provider and 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 operable to;

obtain a request for content originally initiated from a first client computing device at the content delivery network service provider, wherein the content delivery network service provider hosts content on behalf of a content provider;

determine a class of client computing devices associated with the first client computing device;

associate the class of client computing devices with the content requested from the first client computing device;

correlate a second class associated with other client computing devices serviced by a cache component of the content delivery network service provider with the first class of client computing devices as a function of requests made by the first class of client computing devices to the content delivery network 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.