Eric L Kobrin

US Patent:

20120150993, Jun 14, 2012

Filed:

Oct 26, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/281615

Inventors:

Martin T. Flack - Boston MA, US
Eric L. Kobrin - Cambridge MA, US

Assignee:

AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. - Cambridge MA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16
H04W 4/00

US Classification:

709217

Abstract:

Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus facilitating delivery of web content that has adapted for particular client devices, such as mobile devices. Doing so may involve assisting a server without the adaptation logic necessary to deliver adapted content to a particular client device. For example, a given web server may adapt content and serve website content to a requesting client, but another server may take over when the client desires to make a purchase at the site. That other server, while perhaps qualified to process payment information, may not be able to provide adapted content. The content adaptation web server can assist that other server to do so. In other embodiments, such a content adapting server may provide such services to a range of other servers, and itself may not serve content directly to the client. The teachings herein may be implemented within a content delivery network.

US Patent:

20120203861, Aug 9, 2012

Filed:

Dec 20, 2011

Appl. No.:

13/330935

Inventors:

Martin T. Flack - Boston MA, US
Eric L. Kobrin - Cambridge MA, US
Stephen L. Ludin - Mill Valley CA, US
David H. Kaufman - Lexington MA, US

Assignee:

AKAMAI TECHNOLOGIES, INC. - Cambridge MA

International Classification:

G06F 15/16

US Classification:

709217

Abstract:

Methods and systems are disclosed for delivery of tailored content to differentiated devices, such as desktop, mobile, and tablet devices, over a computer network. In one embodiment, a proxy cache server has a content cache for storing previously retrieved objects like web pages or multimedia files. For at least some objects, several versions are stored, each version representing an object suited for a given set of client device characteristics. A device-equivalency data structure maintained at the proxy facilitates a determination of whether such cached versions can be used to service a current request. The versions might represent, for example, modified versions created using, e.g., mobile device transcoding techniques, in response to prior requests. They may also represent a set of alternate content created by a content provider and available from an origin server. Such methods and systems may be implemented in a distributed computing networks, e.g., a content delivery network.

US Patent:

20180324269, Nov 8, 2018

Filed:

May 4, 2018

Appl. No.:

15/971726

Inventors:

- Cambridge MA, US
David H. Kaufman - Lexington MA, US
Eric L. Kobrin - Dania Beach FL, US
Stephen R. Scaffidi - Watertown MA, US
Walter P. Tetzner - Shirley MA, US

Assignee:

Akamai Technologies, Inc. - Cambridge MA

International Classification:

H04L 29/08
H04L 29/06
G06F 17/30
H04L 12/58
H04L 12/24

Abstract:

The teachings herein generally relate to client-server communications and the delivery of content over computer networks to clients, and provide improved methods, systems, and apparatus for identifying and/or characterizing client devices that are requesting content from a server. For example, based on information sent in a client device's request for content, a web server modified in accordance with the teachings hereof can identify a set of characteristics associated with that client device. Such characteristics might include the model name of the client device, the screen dimensions of the client device, information about the particular operating system or browser name/version it is running, content formats it is capable of consuming, and so on. The web server can use this information to modify and customize its response for the given client device.

US Patent:

20170302752, Oct 19, 2017

Filed:

May 4, 2017

Appl. No.:

15/586360

Inventors:

- Cambridge MA, US
David H. Kaufman - Lexington MA, US
Eric L. Kobrin - Dania Beach FL, US
Stephen R. Scaffidi - Watertown MA, US
Walter P. Tetzner - Shirley MA, US

Assignee:

Akamai Technologies, Inc. - Cambridge MA

International Classification:

H04L 29/08
H04L 29/08
H04L 29/08
H04L 29/08
H04L 29/06
H04L 29/06
G06F 17/30

Abstract:

The teachings herein generally relate to client-server communications and the delivery of content over computer networks to clients, and provide improved methods, systems, and apparatus for identifying and/or characterizing client devices that are requesting content from a server. For example, based on information sent in a client device's request for content, a web server modified in accordance with the teachings hereof can identify a set of characteristics associated with that client device. Such characteristics might include the model name of the client device, the screen dimensions of the client device, information about the particular operating system or browser name/version it is running, content formats it is capable of consuming, and so on. The web server can use this information to modify and customize its response for the given client device.

US Patent:

20160323387, Nov 3, 2016

Filed:

Jul 14, 2016

Appl. No.:

15/210357

Inventors:

- Cambridge MA, US
David H. Kaufman - Lexington MA, US
Eric L. Kobrin - Dania Beach FL, US
Stephen R. Scaffidi - Watertown MA, US
Walter P. Tetzner - Shirley MA, US

Assignee:

Akamai Technologies, Inc. - Cambridge MA

International Classification:

H04L 29/08
G06F 17/30

Abstract:

The teachings herein generally relate to client-server communications and the delivery of content over computer networks to clients, and provide improved methods, systems, and apparatus for identifying and/or characterizing client devices that are requesting content from a server. For example, based on information sent in a client device's request for content, a web server modified in accordance with the teachings hereof can identify a set of characteristics associated with that client device. Such characteristics might include the model name of the client device, the screen dimensions of the client device, information about the particular operating system or browser name/version it is running, content formats it is capable of consuming, and so on. The web server can use this information to modify and customize its response for the given client device.