US Patent Issued to Disney Enterprises on Sept. 30 for "Storage efficient content revalidation for multimedia assets" (New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,285, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Disney Enterprises Inc. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Storage efficient content revalidation for multimedia assets" was invented by Eric C. Friedrich (North Easton, Mass.), Eric R. Klein (Astoria, N.Y.) and Jeffrey Edwin Grubb (South Amboy, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques relating to caching a content object are disclosed. These techniques include transmitting, from a requestor to a first server, a revalidation request relating to a content object, and receiving, at the requestor from the first server, a response to the revalidation request indicating that the content object is not modif...