US Patent Issued to Sandpiper CDN on Feb. 18 for "Systems and methods for processing requests for content of a content distribution network" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,518, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Sandpiper CDN LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Systems and methods for processing requests for content of a content distribution network" was invented by Kevin C. Johns (Erie, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved methods for retrieval of content from CDNs is provided that includes a rendezvous controller that receives information of an identification of content being requested and an estimated location of a content requesting device. Based on this information, the rendezvous system identifies a server within a CDN from which the requested content may be retrieved. The selected server may be ba...