ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,621, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PETAL CLOUD TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Content delivery network CDN edge node scheduling method and device" was invented by Wei Yan (Dongguan, China) and Wei Wang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content delivery network (CDN) edge node scheduling method includes receiving, by a scheduling proxy server, a first request message from a terminal device, determining, based on a first Internet Protocol (IP) address and configuration information, a target CDN scheduling center corresponding to the first IP address, sending a second request message to the target CDN schedu...