Patent ID: 8868737

Claim:
A system for providing media delivery reports in a content delivery network, the system comprising: a delivery server in a content delivery network, the delivery server configured to host media files on behalf of a plurality of content providers and to deliver the media files to end users of the content delivery network, the delivery server comprising computer hardware configured to: log media delivery events in response to the media files being delivered to the end users of the content delivery network, each of the media delivery events comprising media delivery event data representing an amount of data of the media files delivered to the end users; generate an event report that summarizes the media delivery event data for multiple deliveries of the media files by at least summing values of the media delivery event data for each of the media files to obtain a cumulative amount of the delivered data; and provide the event report with the summarized media delivery event data over the content delivery network instead of transmitting a separate message for each of the media delivery events over the content delivery network; wherein as network traffic increases in the content delivery network, a volume of the summarized media event delivery data increases at a slower rate than a rate of increase in the network traffic.