US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on July 28 for "Dynamic storage and forwarding of data" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,803, issued on July 28, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Dynamic storage and forwarding of data" was invented by Dean Ballew (Sterling, Va.) and John R.B. Woodworth (Amissville, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for dynamic storage and forwarding of data are described. When remote storage is unreachable by a device via a wide area network (WAN), the device may negotiate for temporary storage on another device connected to the same local area network (LAN). The temporary storage may have a specified storage amount and a specified storage time. The specified storage amount and/or spe...