US 12,348,596 B2
Ontological evaluation and filtering of digital content
Bartow Wyatt, Champaign, IL (US); and Mark Scifres, Champaign, IL (US)
Assigned to PAVLOV MEDIA, INC., Champaign, IL (US)
Filed by Pavlov Media, Inc., Champaign, IL (US)
Filed on Feb. 27, 2014, as Appl. No. 14/192,320.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/770,211, filed on Feb. 27, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/770,186, filed on Feb. 27, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/770,163, filed on Feb. 27, 2013.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/770,204, filed on Feb. 27, 2013.
Prior Publication US 2014/0244670 A1, Aug. 28, 2014
Int. Cl. G06F 16/957 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); H04L 67/1097 (2022.01); H04L 67/568 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 67/568 (2022.05) [G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06F 16/9574 (2019.01); H04L 67/1097 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for ontological evaluation and filtering of digital content to provide the content to a client device connected to a local network at extremely fast data rates without at least some of the delays and latency associated with conventional internet downloads comprising:
receiving, in a local network appliance that forms part of a computer network, a user request for content wherein the local network appliance is located geographically proximate to the user,
creating mined user request data by evaluating, in one or more computers within the computer network, metadata associated with the user request and directed to content available from at least an original content server,
storing, in one or more computers within the computer network, the mined user request data,
evaluating, in one or more computers within the computer network, metadata associated with a response to a user request and determining, in one or more computers within the computer network, if the user-requested content is already available on a central processing cloud or on a local network appliance,
if the response is received from an external source in the central processing cloud, deriving metadata representative of the response and storing such metadata in computer memory,
filtering and evaluating the mined metadata by a processing cluster using predictive algorithms to develop ontological relevancies among content for formation of content channels comprising user-requested content that is likely to be desired for download by one or more of a group of users,
associating one or more users with the local network appliance that received the user request based on the filtering and evaluating step,
storing on the local network appliance, as a result of the associating step, at least some content determined to be relevant to a plurality of the content channels but for which only a single copy is stored, and
in response to subsequent user requests, delivering to user devices geographically proximate to the associated local network appliance at least a portion of the content channels stored as local content on the associated local network appliance to thereby provide that content to the users with reduced latency.