User control over content delivery

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9300732
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14659316

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Novel tools and techniques for Internet service providers to enable enhanced user control over content delivery. In an aspect of certain embodiments, these tools can allow the customer to select, on a variety of different bases, whether content should be obtained from the Internet or from a lower-cost source, such as a metropolitan content delivery network (“CDN”) operated by the ISP or a private peering connection with a content source. Both of these options can, for example, avoid accessing content over the Internet and thus can reduce ISP delivery costs. In some embodiments, these cost reductions can be passed to the consumer in the way the ISP accounts for the content delivery.

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  • CENTURYLINK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC

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Bugenhagen, Michael K Overland Park, US 209 10835

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