US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on June 3 for "Caching content securely within an edge environment" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,488, issued on June 3, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Caching content securely within an edge environment" was invented by Tong Chen (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique to cache content securely within edge network environments, even within portions of that network that might be considered less secure than what a customer desires, while still providing the acceleration and off-loading benefits of the edge network. The approach ensures that customer confidential data (whether content, keys, etc.) are not exposed either in transit or at rest. In this approach, only encrypted copies...