ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,463, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).
"Methods and apparatus for content delivery" was invented by Robert Skog (Hasselby, Sweden), Marcus Ihlar (Alvsjo, Sweden) and Thorsten Lohmar (Aachen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are provided for content delivery. In one aspect, method of receiving content in a device comprises sending a request for the content to a first network node, receiving a redirection instruction from the first network node, wherein the redirection instruction indicates a content delivery network and indicates a data transfer policy,...