Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System and method for providing an adjunct device in a content distribution network
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Application No.: US15724964Application Date: 2017-10-04
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Publication No.: US10230811B2Publication Date: 2019-03-12
- Inventor: Robert J. Sayko , Gregory J. Smith
- Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Applicant Address: US GA Atlanta
- Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
- Current Assignee Address: US GA Atlanta
- Agency: Akerman LLP
- Agent Michael K. Dixon; Mammen (Roy) P. Zachariah, Jr.
- Main IPC: G06F15/16
- IPC: G06F15/16 ; H04L29/08 ; H04N21/222 ; H04N21/2343 ; H04N21/239 ; H04N21/61 ; H04L12/801

Abstract:
A cache server receives content and an instruction indicating an event associated with the content that causes a processor to invoke a call out to an adjunct device. The instruction further indicates an operation that the adjunct device is to perform. The cache server detects the event associated with the content, halts a flow of the content in response to detecting the event associated with the content, passes via the call out the content to the adjunct device to perform the operation, receives from the adjunct device a response and resulting data from the operation, and performs an additional operation on the resulting data based on the response from the adjunct device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180034933A1 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING AN ADJUNCT DEVICE IN A CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORK Public/Granted day:2018-02-01
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