US Patent Issued to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS on Oct. 28 for "Content delivery" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,250, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).

"Content delivery" was invented by Rory Turnbull (London), Stephen Appleby (London) and Timothy Stevens (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing a network for delivering content to a client device, where content segments are delivered to a proxy in a multicast group, before delivery from the proxy to the client device over unicast. The proxy intermittently leaves the multicast group to probe the network by making unicast request for content segments, receiving those segments over unicast from the content server and forwarding those seg...