US Patent Issued to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS on Aug. 4 for "Multicast assisted delivery" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,302, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).

"Multicast assisted delivery" was invented by Rory Turnbull (London), Stephen Appleby (London) and Timothy Stevens (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method of delivering content over network using an approach referred to here as "Multicast Assisted Unicast Delivery" (MAUD), as a multicast network is used to assist, rather than substituting for, an otherwise unicast path. Content is requested by client devices from a content server over unicast. These unicast requests are sent via a first and a second proxy, before being sent by the seco...