[trebecks]

yeesh i didnt realize there was a patent on that. your link lines up with the authors predictions of cdns coming up with and patenting different ways to accomplish this. i guess it makes sense and maybe it isn't a bad thing, but i never thought about it. i wonder how anyone infringing on that is even caught? is something like that ever enforced?

edit: i was blind and missed that it is marked as abandoned "ABANDONED -- FAILURE TO RESPOND TO AN OFFICE ACTION". i never look at these so maybe thats a normal ending, but it is interesting to me.

this guy sounds uhhh exactly the same https://patents.google.com/patent/US11706292B1/en...? reading these brings up the duration of a connection as a relevant dimension. in my bubble i've only dealt with relatively short lived conns. long lived conns must be more likely to get caught up in routing changes so a redirect to unicast can help.