US Patent Issued to DISH Technologies on March 11 for "System and method of minimizing network bandwidth retrieved from an external network" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,254, issued on March 11, was assigned to DISH Technologies LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"System and method of minimizing network bandwidth retrieved from an external network" was invented by Mark B. Hurst (Cedar Hills, Utah), Loren Larsen (American Fork, Utah), David S. Anderson (Salt Lake City) and Lei Wang (Provo, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are provided of minimizing network bandwidth used from an external network by client peers in a local network. The method can include the operation of organizing a plurality of clients each having media streamlets and a client parent in a structure within the local netwo...