ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,930, issued on April 14, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).
"Content delivery" was invented by Michael Nilsson (London), Timothy Stevens (London), Stephen Appleby (London) and Rory Turnbull (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing content delivery to a client device by a proxy, where the content is made up of a sequence of segments. The proxy starts off by receiving content requests from the client device over unicast, and fulfilling those requests by forwarding them to a content server, and receiving that content before forwarding onto the client device. At some stage, the proxy determines t...