US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on April 15 for "Dynamic anycast client routing and health management" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,756, issued on April 15, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Dynamic anycast client routing and health management" was invented by Bradley D. Hultine (Centennial, Colo.), Jason M. Donovan (Denver) and Nikhil H. Parikh (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content distribution system as discussed herein includes one or more instances of communication management hardware. The communication management hardware tracks a status of multiple different groupings of edge nodes in a content delivery network. Each of the edge nodes is operative to distribute content (such as video content, video segments,...