US Patent Issued to Cloudflare on Oct. 27 for "Granular cache management" (Georgia, California, Washington, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,557, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Cloudflare Inc. (San Francisco).

"Granular cache management" was invented by Edward Wang (Oakland, Calif.), Kevin Guthrie (Marietta, Ga.), Matthew Gumport (Seattle) and Yuchen Wu (Las Vegas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method involves receiving, by a cache management module of a network, a first byte range of a data resource from a client device, the first byte range being of a first data segment size. The module determines that the first byte range is not stored at a network cache, identifies a second data segment size for data stored at the cache, computes a second byte range that is an i...