ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,692, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sandpiper CDN LLC (Wilmington, Del.).
"Packet processing of streaming content in a communications network" was invented by Timothy Brown (Moseley, Va.) and Veronica Kravchenko (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of present disclosure include devices within a transmission path of streamed content forwarding received data packets of the stream to the next device or "hop" in the path prior to buffering the data packet at the device. In this method, typical buffering of the data stream may therefore occur at the destination device for presentation at a consuming device, while the devices ...