US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on Sept. 2 for "Overlay network ingress edge region selection" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,726, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Overlay network ingress edge region selection" was invented by Ryan Ruel (Cambridge, Mass.), Fardad Farahmand (Cambridge, Mass.) and Brandon O. Williams (Revere, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to enhanced overlay network-based transport of traffic to and from customer branch office locations, facilitated through the use of the Internet-based overlay routing. A method of selecting an ingress edge region of the overlay network begins by mapping a service hostname to an IKEv2 destination of an outer IPsec tunnel associated...