ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,284, issued on March 3, was assigned to BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC (London).
"Content delivery" was invented by Michael Nilsson (London), Stephen Appleby (London), Timothy Stevens (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 via a proxy is described. The proxy starts off by receiving content requests from the client device over unicast, and fulfils 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 that it may be possible to join a multicast chan...