Method and apparatus for facilitating content distribution

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9059883
APP PUB NO 20130297738A1
SERIAL NO

13980737

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A method and apparatus are provided for facilitating content distribution. A method may include receiving, at an edge proxy apparatus, a subscription request indicating content to which a subscriber is to be subscribed. The method may further include creating a flow token including content relation information referencing the indicated content and state information enabling delivery of subscribed content to a subscriber apparatus associated with the subscriber. The method may additionally include causing the flow token to be provided to a lookup service apparatus configured to provide access to flow tokens to one or more content publishers. A corresponding apparatus is also provided.

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  • WSOU INVESTMENTS, LLC

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Tarkoma, Sasu Helsinki, FI 20 394

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