US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 24 for "Peak event content delivery network traffic simulation and testing" (New Jersey, New York, Washington, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,501, issued on March 24, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Peak event content delivery network traffic simulation and testing" was invented by Daniel Schwartz (New Milford, N.J.), Tyler Lehman Moore (New York), Steven Charles Mascola (East Islip, N.Y.), Simba Maponga (West Windsor, N.J.), Thomas Bradley Scholl (Seattle) and Erik Anders Karulf (Eden Prairie, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for peak event testing. The systems and methods enable spoofing a network address (such as a subnet or an IP address) for DNS queries during testing, thereby causing the DNS resolver to retur...