EdgeCast's patent portfolio comes to the company by way of a licensing agreement with Web.com, one of the leaders in online marketing and hosting. The intellectual property agreement grants EdgeCast a license for more than thirty issued and pending patents covering a broad range of methods and techniques including: display and delivery of rich media; unique storage systems; automated hosting and server management; load balancing technology; and dynamic DNS technologies. The patent applications date as early as 1994. Click here to learn more about this patent licensing arrangement.

The Web.com/EdgeCast patent portfolio cross various technology concentrations including:

•      Web Hosting •      Website Design •      Graphic User Interface •      Data Center Management •      Web Server Management;

Portfolio of Patents

•     Computerized Transactions Using a Computer Network (1 MB) •     Using Virtual Network Address Information During Communications (1 MB) •     System and Method for Managing Server Configurations (1 MB) •     Automatically Configured Network Server (858 KB) •     Synchronized Server Parameter Database (844 KB) •     Facilitating Load Balancing Across Name Servers (545 KB) •     Dynamically Incorporating Updates to Active Configuration Information (2 MB) •     User Access to Dynamic Updating of Remote Configuration Information (2 MB) •     Bandwidth On Demand Subscriber System (538 KB) •     Automatic Dial-Up Dial-Down Web Hosting (381 KB) •     Scheduling Processes Based Upon Virtual Server Identifiers (609 KB) •     Computer Storage Systems for Computer Facilities (804 KB) •     Method And Apparatus for Providing a Self-Service File (744 KB) •     Hypermedia Authoring and Publishing System (3 MB) •     Continuation of U.S. Pat. 6,268,851 (2 MB) •     Database Using Active Server Pages (612 KB) •     Navigating Multiple Independent Windowed Image (1 MB) •     Method and Apparatus for Providing Name Services (881 KB) •     Method and system for communicating between clients in a computer network       (874 KB)