ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,679, issued on March 4, was assigned to DIRECTV LLC (El Segundo, Calif.).
"Edge cache segment prefetching" was invented by Robert G. Arsenault (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Denny Lai (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Thai Lam (Cypress, Calif.) and Michael A. Makhijani (Playa Vista, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, computer-readable media, and methods for pre-loading video chunks of a video program at an edge server are disclosed. For example, a processor may receive a manifest file for a video program, determine a bitrate for a first segment of the video program, request a video chunk of the first segment at the first bitrate from an...