ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,334, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to System73 Ltd. (Floriana, Malta).
"Adaptive overlay network architecture" was invented by Jose Daniel Perea Strom (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain), Doron Paz (Alameda, Calif.), William C. Erbey (Christiansted, Virgin Islands) and Duo Zhang (Lakewood, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The adaptive overlay network architecture of the present invention improves the performance of applications distributing digital content among nodes of an underlying network such as the Internet by establishing and reconfiguring overlay network topologies over which associated content items are distributed. The pre...