US Patent Issued to VeriSign on Sept. 23 for "Caching proxy for a digital object architecture" (Virginia, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,491, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to VeriSign Inc. (Reston, Va.).

"Caching proxy for a digital object architecture" was invented by Andrew Fregly (Reston, Va.), Najmehalsadat Miramirkhani (Stony Brook, N.Y.) and Swapneel Sheth (Fairfax, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital object architecture infrastructure includes a handle system that stores handle data and a proxy server that caches handle data for rapid access. A client connects to the proxy server to request access to the handle data. When the handle data does not have access restrictions and is currently cached, the proxy server returns the handle data to the clien...