US Patent Issued to Level 3 Communications on Feb. 10 for "Content delivery system using embedded requester information" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,511, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Level 3 Communications LLC (Denver).

"Content delivery system using embedded requester information" was invented by Kevin Johns (Erie, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A DNS resolution request for a hostname of a CDN is received. An edge server of the CDN may be identified, which may be associated with a subnet. The subnet is used to generate a response IP address, where the remaining bits of the response IP address may be used to store requestor information (e.g., a requestor IP address). When a client computing device uses the response IP address to access the edge server, requestor infor...