US Patent Issued to Adeia Media Holdings on May 20 for "Location based access control for content delivery network resources" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,220, issued on May 20, was assigned to Adeia Media Holdings LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Location based access control for content delivery network resources" was invented by James Roseborough (Piedmont, Calif.) and Stephen Coney (San Fransisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided to allow efficient delivery of content through a content delivery network (CDN) without taxing an origin server while maintaining fine grained location based access control. Requests to a CDN are augmented with quantized and non-quantized versions of location information. A CDN can use quantized location information in a URI to identif...