ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,197, issued on July 14, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Methods and systems for content delivery" was invented by Douglas Makofka (Jim Thorpe, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for content delivery are described. A content delivery network may include a request server that receives a request for content from a client device. The request server may send the request to each caching device among a plurality of caching devices. Each caching device may receive the service query and assess its current health based on one or more parameters. Each caching device may wait for a duration o...