US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on Oct. 20 for "Distributed edge compute architecture with multi-path overlay network transport layer" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,637, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Distributed edge compute architecture with multi-path overlay network transport layer" was invented by Christopher R. Knox (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Generalized Edge Compute (GEC) architecture that enables customers to deploy their applications in a Virtual Machine (VM) environment is hosted on overlay network hardware and software, thereby leveraging the advantages provided by a widely-distributed overlay. A multi-path overlay network transport layer is implemented between and among the GEC regions, and secure tunneling (e.g., usi...