US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on Aug. 26 for "Establishing on demand connections to intermediary nodes with advance information for performance improvement" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,620, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Establishing on demand connections to intermediary nodes with advance information for performance improvement" was invented by Charles E Gero (Quincy, Mass.) and David Tang (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agent deployed within a private network creates on-demand connections to an intermediary node outside the private network. When a client contacts the intermediary node for an application or more generally any service available from within the private network, the intermediary node signals the agent to create the on-demand connec...