ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,511, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to BRIGHT DATA LTD. (Netanya, Israel).
"System and method for streaming content from multiple servers" was invented by Derry Shribman (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ofer Vilenski (Moshav Hadar Am, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for media streaming from multiple sources are disclosed. A content requesting client device accesses a server to receive a list of available sources that may include multiple Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) and independent servers. Based on a pre-set criteria, such as the source delivery performance and cost, the client device partitions the content in...