ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,006, issued on June 24, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for minimizing number of copies of content items stored at server" was invented by Veeresh Babu (Karnataka, India) and Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for receiving a first request, associated with a first user profile, to record a content item, and storing, at a server and based on the first request, a first copy of the content item, accessible via the first user profile. A second request to record the content item may be received, associated with a second user profile, and conten...