US Patent Issued to Koninklijke KPN, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO on Aug. 12 for "Auctioning the serving and/or caching of a data object" (Dutch, Greek Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,909, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Koninklijke KPN N.V. (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast-Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands).

"Auctioning the serving and/or caching of a data object" was invented by Konstantinos Trichias (Athens, Greece), Lucia D'Acunto (Delft, Netherlands), Bastiaan Frederik Wissingh (Leiden, Netherlands) and Eelco Reinier Cramer (Amsterdam).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises receiving a data object request to serve a data object and transmitting bid requests to a plurality of systems. The data object request identifies the data obje...