US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 20 for "Routing mode and point-of-presence selection service" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,048, issued on May 20, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Routing mode and point-of-presence selection service" was invented by Craig Wesley Howard (Seattle) and Hardeep Singh Uppal (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for sloppy routing are provided. A client transmits a DNS query corresponding to a requested resource to a content delivery network (CDN) service provider. In some embodiments, the CDN service provider processes the DNS query to determine whether a threshold content delivery bandwidth has been exceeded by data links at cache servers. In other embodiments, additionally or alterna...