ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,128, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to ActiveVideo Networks LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of alternative networked application services" was invented by Ronald A. Brockmann (Los Gatos, Calif.), Maarten Hoeben (Acquapendente, Italy), Gerrit Willem Hiddink (Amersfoort, Netherlands), Serban Ungureanu (Amsterdam), Andrew Gall (Haarlem, Netherlands) and Philipp Beyer (hilversum, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The server system receives, from a respective remote physical client device, a digest of a segment of video content received by the respective remote physical client device, the segment of video content incl...