Patent ID: 8825830
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A content delivery framework (CDF) comprising a plurality of devices, each device comprising hardware including memory and at least one processor, each device configured to run at least one content delivery (CD) service of a plurality of CD services, wherein (A) said plurality of CD services comprise: collector services, reducer services, and control services; and wherein (B) (i) at least some CD services are configured to obtain control input from other CD services, and (C) at least some of said CD services produce, as event output, one or more event streams relating to their respective operation; and (D) at least some of said event output is provided to at least some of said reducer services as event input to said reducer services; and (E) at least some of said reducer services: (F) at least some of said collector services: (G) at least some of said control services: wherein said plurality of CD services comprise one or more CD service networks, and wherein each particular CD service network has a dynamic network topology, and wherein the network topology of the particular CD service network is updated based on one or more of: (i) control information from the control services, and (ii) state information from the collector services.