Patent ID: 9253051
Filing Date: 2016-02-02
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A content delivery method, comprising: obtaining trend data relative to a particular content to be distributed in a geographical region serviced by a content delivery network; obtaining demographic data of subscribers serviced by the content delivery network; obtaining licensing data relative to the particular content from a content provider; forecasting an expected popularity distribution of the particular content in the geographical region based on a metric depending on at least one of the trend data and the demographic data; effectuating a push policy for pushing the particular content to one or more nodes of the content delivery network based on the expected popularity distribution of the particular content relative to the geographical region serviced by the content delivery network; assigning a push weight for distributing the particular content via the content delivery network based on comparing a current date against a licensing start date relative to the particular content; provisioning a push pipe based on the push weight as part of the push policy for distributing the particular content to the one or more nodes of the content delivery network; and providing the push policy to the central distribution node of the content delivery network.