Sycamore Networks, Inc. (fka SCMR)

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Patent awarded 9/19/2012. Coincidence?

Sycamore Networks Assigned Patent
Targeted News Service
By Targeted News Service
ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 19 -- Sycamore Networks, Chelmsford, Mass., has been assigned a patent (8,271,610) developed by five co-inventors for a "distributed content caching solution for a mobile wireless network." The co-inventors are Yang Cao, Westford, Mass., Michael Nicolazzo, Philadelphia, William M. Turner, Higganum, Conn., Talbot Hack, Ann Arbor, Mich., and Moshe Suberri, Voorhees, N.J.
The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "A method in an electronic device provides local content to a user device in a communication network. The communication network includes an access network and a core network. In the access network, a content request is intercepted from the user device, which may be formatted according to a network interface. The content request may include a request for data content. Protocol layers associated with an active data session may be terminated so that an edge gateway device may extract and inject packets into the data stream without involving the core network. A cache may be maintained in the access network."
The patent application was filed on March 5, 2009 (12/398,735). The full-text of the patent can be found at patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,271,610&OS=8,271,610&RS=8,271,610
Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.
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