US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Nov. 25 for "Client-server response time based computer system geolocation" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,425, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Client-server response time based computer system geolocation" was invented by Emanuele Vercalli (Cologno Monzese, Italy), Federico Accetta (Milan), Massimo Caprinali (Merate, Italy) and Roberto Ragusa (Rome).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment sends, at a first time, from a boundary server to a client system in response to a challenge request, a challenge specifying a computational problem to be solved by the client system, the boundary server specified in a challenge list sent to the client system. An embodiment receives, at a sec...