Patents by Inventor Leland R. Beaumont

Leland R. Beaumont has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Technique for content delivery over the internet
    Patent number: 6959333
    Abstract: A content delivery system for a content provider that comprises at least two content delivery servers for delivering contents, a preference database for storing an estimated distance between each of the at least two content delivery servers and a client, and a content provider domain name server for mapping the name of the content provider to the at least two content delivery servers and selecting one of the content delivery servers to deliver the content, that has a shortest estimated distance to the client in the preference database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2005
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Leland R. Beaumont, Markus Hofmann, Michael Vernick, Steve Y Wang
  • Technique for content delivery over the internet
    Publication number: 20020169890
    Abstract: A content delivery system for a content provider that comprises at least two content delivery servers for delivering contents, a preference database for storing an estimated distance between each of the at least two content delivery servers and a client, and a content provider domain name server for mapping the name of the content provider to the at least two content delivery servers and selecting one of the content delivery servers to deliver the content, that has a shortest estimated distance to the client in the preference database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Publication date: November 14, 2002
    Inventors: Leland R. Beaumont, Markus Hofmann, Michael Vernick, Steve Y. Wang