{
  "patent_number": "US 8495220",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How Cloud Storage Providers Automatically Connect Files to Content Delivery Networks",
  "original_title": "Managing CDN registration by a storage provider",
  "summary": "A system where a cloud storage provider detects when a website's files need faster delivery and automatically handles the setup with a Content Delivery Network (CDN) for the user.",
  "what_it_does": "This patent describes a bridge between where you store your website files (like Amazon S3) and the network that speeds them up (a CDN). Instead of a developer manually configuring settings in two different systems, the storage provider monitors traffic patterns to identify when a file is popular enough to benefit from a CDN. It then uses the registration information it already has to automatically send a request to the CDN service provider to start serving those files. It can even generate a user interface or an API call to let the content owner authorize this with a single click.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover the actual technical process of how a CDN caches or serves files to end users.",
    "Does not cover manual CDN configuration where a user must provide all server settings and credentials independently.",
    "Does not cover routing logic that occurs after the CDN has already been registered and is active."
  ],
  "filed": "2012-09-15",
  "granted": "2013-07-23",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Amazon Technologies Inc",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/amazon-technologies-inc",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Swaminathan Sivasubramanian",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/swaminathan-sivasubramanian"
    },
    {
      "name": "David R. Richardson",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/david-r-richardson"
    },
    {
      "name": "Bradley E. Marshal",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/bradley-e-marshal"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 0,
  "tags": [
    "consumer_electronics",
    "software",
    "telecommunications",
    "ecommerce"
  ],
  "abstract": "A system, method, and computer readable medium for managing registration, by a network storage provider, of one or more resources with a CDN service provider are provided. A network storage provider storing one or more resources on behalf of a content provider obtains registration information for registering the one or more resources with a CDN service provider. The registration information may include a request to publish one or more resources to a CDN service provider, an identification of the one or more resources, CDN selection criteria provided by the content provider or otherwise selected, and the like. The network storage provider transmits a CDN generation request corresponding to the registration information to the CDN service provider. Then, the network storage provider manages and processes data pursuant to registration of the one or more resources with the CDN service provider.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/8495220/amazon-cloudfront-streaming",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/8495220/amazon-cloudfront-streaming/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US8495220",
  "relatedPatents": []
}