US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on April 29 for "Utilizing blockchains to implement named data networking" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,414, issued on April 29, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Utilizing blockchains to implement named data networking" was invented by Kevin M. McBride (Lone Tree, Colo.), Stephen Opferman (Denver), Steven M. Casey (Littleton, Colo.) and William O'Brien Jr. (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Novel tools and techniques are provided for utilizing blockchain to implement named data networking. In various embodiments, a computing system might determine whether a cache that is communicatively coupled to the computing system contains data that is responsive to a first request received from a user. If ...