Patent ID: 7809813
Filing Date: 2010-10-05
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A content service network for providing content-oriented services on contents delivered over a wide-area network, comprising: a content delivery network having a plurality of service-enabled proxies positioned at edge servers disposed in content delivery paths between content providers and content consumers on the wide-area network; and a service delivery overlay having a plurality of application servers each distinct from the service-enabled proxies, the plurality of application servers for performing content processing for rendering content-oriented services and at least a service management server for managing service subscriptions, the service management server having a service subscription component for receiving service subscriptions for content-oriented services from subscribers, creating for each subscribed service a service instruction including service binding data identifying a subscriber for said each subscribed service and identifying said each subscribed service, and distributing the service instructions to the service-enabled proxies positioned at the edge servers such that when the service management server is in an eager mode, the service management server distributes the service instructions immediately after receiving a service subscription and when the service management server is in a lazy mode the service-enabled proxy fetches the service instructions from the service management server on a periodic basis, the service management server for distributing applications for performing services to the application servers and executable modules for performing services to the service-enabled proxies, each of the service-enabled proxies having