Patent ID: 9059883
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at an edge proxy apparatus, a subscription request indicating content to which a subscriber is to be subscribed; creating a flow token comprising content relation information referencing the indicated content and state information enabling delivery of subscribed content to a subscriber apparatus associated with the subscriber; causing the flow token to be provided to a lookup service apparatus configured to provide access to flow tokens to one or more content publishers; receiving subscribed content and at least a portion of the flow token; and using the at least a portion of the flow token to deliver the subscribed content to the subscriber apparatus, wherein using the at least a portion of the flow token comprises recreating a connection state for a connection between the edge proxy apparatus and the subscriber apparatus based at least in part on the state information included in the at least a portion of the flow token.