US Patent Issued to CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING on June 23 for "Apparatus and methods for packetized content routing and delivery" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,939, issued on June 23, was assigned to CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING LLC (St. Louis).

"Apparatus and methods for packetized content routing and delivery" was invented by James Panagos (Broomfield, Colo.) and Justin Slaughter (Highlands Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for managing content delivery in a packetized network. In one embodiment, the network provide content to a plurality of clients via a plurality of nodes and origin points, and resources are discreetly represented (e.g., with IP addresses, such as those afforded under the IPv6 protocol) to allows for direct advertisement of resources....