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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8370649 | Stream control failover utilizing an attribute-dependent protection mechanism A technique for managing the streaming of digital video content to multiple clients involves identifying an attribute of a content element that is streamed to a client and selecting a protection mechanism for the content element as a function of the attribute, where... | 02/05/2013 |
| 8326967 | Stream control failover utilizing the sharing of state information within a logical group of stream servers A technique for streaming digital video content to multiple clients involves establishing a logical group of IP-connected stream servers, generating state information at multiple stream servers within the logical group, sharing the state information amongst stream s... | 12/04/2012 |
| 8145570 | Method and mechanism for vending digital content An Internet Box Office (IBO) system and technique vends digital content via a computer network, such as the Internet. The IBO system comprises a viewing system that cooperates with a Digital Rights Management system and various deployment enhancements within the Int... | 03/27/2012 |
| 7954144 | Brokering state information and identity among user agents, origin servers, and proxies Methods, signals, devices, and systems are provided for using proxy servers to transparently forward messages between clients and origin servers if, and only if doing so does not violate network policies. In some systems, a transparent proxy uses a combination of st... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7680897 | Methods and systems for managing network traffic Methods and systems for network traffic management are provided. A content distribution network application manages data in a cache. A network rate shaper application controls and manages requests for access to an external network connection. The content distributio... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7386514 | Method and mechanism for vending digital content An Internet Box Office (IBO) system and technique vends digital content via a computer network, such as the Internet. The IBO system comprises a viewing system that cooperates with a Digital Rights Management system and various deployment enhancements within the Int... | 06/10/2008 |
| 6993508 | Method and mechanism for vending digital content An Internet Box Office (IBO) system and technique vends digital content via a computer network, such as the Internet. The IBO system comprises a viewing system that cooperates with a Digital Rights Management system and various deployment enhancements within the Int... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6862606 | System and method for partitioning address space in a proxy cache server cluster A proxy partition cache (PPC) architecture and a technique for address-partitioning a proxy cache consisting of a grouping of discrete, cooperating caches (servers) is provided. Client requests for objects (files) of a given size are redirected or reassigned to a si... | 03/01/2005 |
| 6542967 | Cache object store A cache object store is organized to provide fast and efficient storage of data as cache objects organized into cache object groups. The cache object store preferably embodies a multi-level hierarchical storage architecture comprising a primary memory-lev... | 04/01/2003 |
