Patent ID: 11956481
Assignee: CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method for content delivery from a content delivery network (CDN), comprising:
sending, from a processor of a computing device, a discovery message to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) network;
receiving, at the processor of the computing device, a capability response from a local cache server in response to sending the discovery message, wherein the capability response indicates topology data for the local cache;
sending, from the processor of the computing device, a request for content to the CDN including the topology data for the local cache server;
receiving, at the processor of the computing device, a response from the CDN including an address for the content at the local cache server in response to sending the request for the content to the CDN;
sending, from the processor of the computing device, a request for the content to the address for the content at the local cache server;
receiving, at the processor of the computing device, the content from the local cache server in response to the request for the content to the address for the content at the local cache server; and
sending, from the processor of the computing device, a report to the CDN in response to receiving the content from the local cache server,
wherein:
the discovery message is a content delivery protocol (CDP) discovery message;
the capability response is a CDP capability response;
the request for content to the CDN is a CDP GET message; and
the request for the content to the address for the content at the local cache server is an Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) GET message.