US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises on July 15 for "Resilient content distribution network" (New York, California, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,395, issued on July 15, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Resilient content distribution network" was invented by Michael J. Strein (Bohemia, N.Y.), David E. Potter (Altadena, Calif.), Patrick Daly (Memphis, Tenn.) and Ryan N. McCormick (Blauvelt, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one implementation, a content distribution network includes a first plurality of communication paths for Internet Protocol (IP) signals, a router providing a second plurality of communication paths for non-IP signals, and a plurality of signal sources and a plurality of signal destinations. Each signal source is linked to a re...