Invention Grant
- Patent Title: User control over content delivery
- Patent Title (中): 用户控制内容传递
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Application No.: US13302055Application Date: 2011-11-22
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Publication No.: US09015343B2Publication Date: 2015-04-21
- Inventor: Michael K. Bugenhagen
- Applicant: Michael K. Bugenhagen
- Applicant Address: US CO Denver
- Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
- Current Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Denver
- Agency: Swanson & Bratschun, L.L.C.
- Main IPC: G06F15/173
- IPC: G06F15/173 ; G08B25/08 ; G08B25/14

Abstract:
Novel tools and techniques for Internet service providers to enable enhanced user control over content delivery. In an aspect of certain embodiments, these tools can allow the customer to select, on a variety of different bases, whether content should be obtained from the Internet or from a lower-cost source, such as a metropolitan content delivery network (“CDN”) operated by the ISP or a private peering connection with a content source. Both of these options can, for example, avoid accessing content over the Internet and thus can reduce ISP delivery costs. In some embodiments, these cost reductions can be passed to the consumer in the way the ISP accounts for the content delivery.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120131096A1 User Control Over Content Delivery Public/Granted day:2012-05-24
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