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20120179782 | MECHANISM FOR SUPPORTING USER CONTENT FEEDS - In one embodiment, for each one of one or more content producers, access a content-producing rate at which the content producer produces one or more items of content; and for each one of one or more content consumers, access a content-consuming rate at which the content consumer consumes one or more items of content. For each one of a plurality of consumer-producer pairs, wherein the consumer-producer pair comprises one of the content consumers and one of the content producers, and the content consumer follows the content producer, select between a push strategy and a pull strategy for delivering one or more items of content from the content producer to the content consumer based on the content-consuming rate of the content consumer and the content-producing rate of the content producer. | 07-12-2012 |
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20140115052 | GENERATING MEANINGFUL NAMES FOR CONTENT USING CONTEXTUAL AND IDENTIFYING INFORMATION - A system can configure a peripheral device to name data using a structured name that is derived from certain contextual information. During operation, the system can detect a presence of the peripheral device, and can send a data request to the peripheral device. The data request can indicate what type of data is to be collected by the peripheral device, as well as contextual information from the local device. The system then receives a content item from the peripheral device, such that the content item includes a structured name derived from the contextual information. The system can store the content item based on the structured name. | 04-24-2014 |
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20150134612 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING SERVER HANDOFF IN A NAME-BASED CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A server-handoff system facilitates replicating or migrating a data collection or service to one or more alternative servers of a distributed service. During operation, the system can detect a data-handoff condition for migrating or replicating data to an alternative or newly started server, and determines a namespace that is to be migrated or replicated. The namespace includes a data collection or an application publication space associated with one or more structured name prefixes. The system then identifies the alternative servers to which the namespace is to be replicated, and synchronizes a namespace configuration with the alternative content producer. The namespace configuration identifies a set of data items from the namespace which facilitates the alternative content producer to host the data or service. The alternative content producer can use the namespace configuration to obtain the data items associated with the namespace before hosting the data or service. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134680 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREFETCHING CONTENT IN A DATA STREAM - A data-processing system facilitates processing a data stream to assist other devices to pre-fetch elements of the data stream, out-of-sequence, for uninterrupted playback. During operation, the system can receive a data file, and segments the data file into a sequence of content objects. The system then determines a target content object that is to be processed out-of-sequence, and a corresponding source content object. The system then inserts a reference to the target content object, into the source content object, and stores the sequence of content objects. A client device can disseminate interest to obtain the data stream's content objects. Upon receiving a content object, the client device can determine whether the content object includes a reference to other content objects. If so, the client device can disseminate interests for these referenced content objects. | 05-14-2015 |
20150134781 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRE-FETCHING REMOTE CONTENT BASED ON STATIC AND DYNAMIC RECOMMENDATIONS - A data-caching system facilitates pre-loading a cache with content objects that are likely to be of interest to a client device, as determined based on their correlation to other content objects served to the client device. During operation, the system can receive an interest for a content object, and can determine whether the local network device can satisfy the interest. If so, the system generates a content-object recommendation that indicates other content objects that are correlated with the received interest, for example, by computing correlation values between the received interest and a plurality of historical interests. The system then provides the content recommendation to a remote network device from which the interest originated, such that the content recommendation indicates the correlated content objects to pre-load into a cache. | 05-14-2015 |