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

Claim 16:
17. A non-transitory processor-readable storage medium having stored thereon processor-executable instructions configured to cause a processor to perform operations for content delivery from a content delivery network (CDN), the operations comprising:
sending a discovery message to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) network;
receiving 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 a request for content to the CDN including the topology data for the local cache server;
receiving 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 a request for the content to the address for the content at the local cache server;
receiving 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 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.