US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on May 13 for "Method and system for federated over-the-top content delivery" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,656, issued on May 13, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and system for federated over-the-top content delivery" was invented by Kevin J. Ma (Nashua, N.H.), Raj Nair (Lexington, Mass.), Robert Hickey (Bedford, Mass.), Daniel Biagini (Bolton, Mass.) and Chin-Cheng Wu (Carlisle, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for managing over-the-top delivery of content through a plurality of content delivery networks (CDN). The method provided works transparently with standard HTTP servers supporting an initial request for content from a client to a first preferred CDN. If the first...