MOBILE CONDITIONS AWARE CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK

摘要

A content delivery network is configured to receive information about wireless network conditions from a wireless device. The wireless device is configured to provide information about the conditions of the wireless device and/or the conditions of the network the wireless device is being served by. These conditions can then be used to help optimize content delivery to the wireless device or similarly situated wireless devices.

主权项

1. A method of operating a communication system, comprising:
providing a content delivery network (CDN) having a set of cache nodes (CN) to provide content delivery on behalf of a set of participating content providers, at least one of the set of content providers sourcing content for delivery by the CDN from an origin server; receiving, by the CDN, a request for content, the request for content coming from a wireless device and requesting content sourced by the origin server; receiving, by the CDN and from the wireless device, at least one indicator of wireless device conditions; and, based on the at least one indicator of wireless device conditions, selecting service parameters for delivery of content requested by the wireless device.