US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on Nov. 18 for "Techniques for steering network traffic to regions of a cloud computing system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,034, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Techniques for steering network traffic to regions of a cloud computing system" was invented by Sergey Fedorov (Los Gatos, Calif.), Phelps Watson Williams (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Niosha Behnam (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, domain name system (DNS) servers are implemented on a content distribution network (CDN) infrastructure in order to facilitate centralized control of traffic steering. Each server appliance in the CDN infrastructure acts as both an authoritative DNS nameserver and a dynamic request proxy, and each s...