Our Patents

Edgecast's Intellectual Property.

Edgecast's patent portfolio includes our patents as well as those included in a licensing agreement with Web.com. That agreement grants Edgecast a license covering more than 30 issued and pending patents covering a broad range of methods and techniques, such as display and delivery of rich media, unique storage systems, automated hosting and server management, load balancing technology, and dynamic DNS technologies dating as early as 1994.

The Edgecast patent portfolio includes various technology concentrations, such as:

• Content delivery
• Network federation
• Web hosting
• Website design
• Graphical user interface
• Data center management
• Web server management
• Stats and analytics

Our list of patents

1. Media Content Delivery Systems and Methods
2. Advertisement Insertion into Streaming Media Content (1)
3. Advertisement Insertion into Streaming Media Content (2)
4. Advertisement Insertion into Streaming Media Content (3)
5. Advertisement Insertion into Streaming Media Content (4)
6. Advertisement Insertion into Streaming Media Content (5)
7. Optimized Content Distribution Based on Metrics Derived from the End User
8. End-to-End Monitoring and Optimization of a Content Delivery Network Using Anycast Routing (1)
9. End-to-End Monitoring and Optimization of a Content Delivery Network Using Anycast Routing (2)
10. Network Connection Hand-Off using State Transformations
11. Systems and Methods for Performing Localized Server-Side Monitoring in a Content Delivery Network (1)
12. Systems and Methods for Performing Localized Server-Side Monitoring in a Content Delivery Network (1)
13. Systems and Methods for Billing Content Providers for Designated Content Delivered over Data Network (1)
14. Systems and Methods for Billing Content Providers for Designated Content Delivered over Data Network (2)
15. Optimized Content Distribution based on Metrics Derived from the End-user
16. Optimizing Multi-Hit Caching for Long Tail Content (1)
17. Optimizing Multi-Hit Caching for Long Tail Content (2)
18. White-list Firewall Based on the Document Object Model
19. Configuration Management Repository for a Distributed Platform
20. Sandboxing Content Optimization at the Network Edge
21. Bandwidth Modification For Transparent Capacity Management in a Carrier Network
22. Real-time Granular Statistical Reporting for Distributed Platforms
23. Discrete Mapping for Targeted Caching
24. Request Modification for Transparent Capacity Management in a Carrier Network (1)
25. Request Modification for Transparent Capacity Management in a Carrier Network (2)
26. Global Load Balancing on a Content Delivery Network (1)
27. Global Load Balancing on a Content Delivery Network (2)
28. Global Load Balancing on a Content Delivery Network (3)
29. Systems and Methods for Invoking Commands Across a Federation (1)
30. Systems and Methods for Invoking Commands Across a Federation (2)
31. Systems and Methods for Invoking Commands Across a Federation (3)
32. Systems and Methods for Invoking Commands Across a Federation (4)
33. Systems and Methods to Uniquely Identify Assets in a Federation (1)
34. Systems and Methods to Uniquely Identify Assets in a Federation (2)
35. Systems and Methods to Uniquely Identify Assets in a Federation (3)
36. Content Network Global Replacement Policy (1)
37. Content Network Global Replacement Policy (2)
38. Content Network Global Replacement Policy (3)
39. System and Method for Managing Server Configurations
40. Automatically Configured Network Server
41. Synchronized Server Parameter Database
42. Method and Apparatus for Providing Name Services
43. Dynamically Incorporating Updates to Active Configuration Information
44. User Access to Dynamic Updating of Remote Configuration Information
45. Computerized Transactions Using a Computer Network
46. Method and system for communicating between networked clients
47. Using Virtual Network Address Information During Communications
48. Facilitating Load Balancing Across Name Servers
49. Method and system for communicating between clients in a computer network
50. Bandwidth On Demand Subscriber System
51. Automatic Dial-Up Dial-Down Web Hosting
52. Scheduling Processes Based Upon Virtual Server Identifiers
53. Computer Storage Systems for Computer Facilities
54. Method And Apparatus for Providing a Self-Service File
55. Hypermedia Authoring and Publishing System (1)
56. Hypermedia Authoring and Publishing System (2)
57. Database Access Using Active Server Pages
58. Navigating Multiple Independent Windowed Image
59. Reconfigurable Download Manager
60. Scalable Content Streaming System With Server-Side Archiving
61. Configuration Management Repository for a Federation of Distributed Platforms
62. Efficient Cache Validation and Content Retrieval in a Content Delivery Network
63. Scalability and Redundancy Enhancements For Content Streaming