ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,260, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sandpiper CDN LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Control in a content delivery network" was invented by Laurence R. Lipstone (Calabasas, Calif.), William Crowder (Camarillo, Calif.), Jeffrey G. Koller (Oxnard, Calif.), David Fullagar (Boulder, Colo.), Maksim Yevmenkin (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Christopher Newton (Westlake Village, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content delivery network (CDN) includes a plurality of CDN components including at least one CDN rendezvous mechanism and at least one control core. The CDN components are controlled by control core data from the at least one control co...