US Patent Issued to CenturyLink Intellectual Property on Sept. 15 for "Distributed content distribution network" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,297, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC (Denver).

"Distributed content distribution network" was invented by Steven M. Casey (Littleton, Colo.) and Stephen Opferman (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the present disclosure relate to a distributed CDN comprised of CDN nodes that each have a compute engine and a data store. Compute engines may be used to execute software associated with computing functionality of the distributed CDN and may be reconfigured according to changing conditions to adapt computing functionality to current or expected demand. Nodes may communicate with on...