US Patent Issued to Twilio on May 27 for "System and method for processing media requests during telephony sessions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,810, issued on May 27, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"System and method for processing media requests during telephony sessions" was invented by Jeffrey Gordon Lawson (San Francisco), John Robert Wolthuis (San Francisco) and Evan Mansfield Cooke (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a preferred embodiment, the method of caching media used in a telephony application includes: receiving a media request; sending the media request to a media layer using HTTP; the a media layer performing the steps of checking in a cache for the media resource; processing the media request within a media processing server; and st...