Around the world many different micropayment systems are in use. Because of this variety, content providers and customers may rely on different systems. As a result, customers may be unable to buy content from providers using a different system. This paper proposes a novel approach that allows existing micropayment systems to collaborate. This collaboration is realized by introducing an interme...

A content provider must choose how to provision its server resources to handle client demand for its content. When provisioning is based on typical demand, clients are turned away during peak demand periods. Provisioning based on peak demand or contracting a third party content distribution network service increases costs. An alternative approach is for the various content providers to form a c...

Content providers often face legal or economic pressures to censor or remove objectionable or infringing content they host. While decentralized providers can enable censorship-resistant storage, centralized content providers remain popular for performance and usability reasons. But centralized content providers can always choose not to respond to requests for a specific file, making it difficul...

Large content providers (CPs) are responsible for a large fraction of injected traffic to the Internet. They maintain multiple data centers and they connect to different ASes to relay their contents and service traffic to the rest of the Internet. In this paper we propose a novel methodology to measure and characterize large Internet Content Providers. Basically our contribution is two-fold: • ...

Recently, it has been observed an increasing popularization of video sharing environments. Part of such success is due to the change on the user perspective from content consumer to content creator, basic principle of the Web 2.0. Thus, video service providers are dealing with different challenges, such as content storage, performance and scalability of servers, personalization, and service dif...

This research defines a method for developing eXtended Markup Language (XML)-based content management services for global product manufacturers and distributors. Content management services for multi-channel trades play an important role in e-business because it enables the seamless flow of product information between suppliers, manufacturers, distributors and customers. In today’s business wor...