ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,426, issued on April 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"System and method for modelling access requests to multi-channel content sharing platforms" was invented by Brian James Mulford (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.), T. J. Gaffney (Mountain View, Calif.), Michael John de Ridder (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Colby D. Ranger (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are disclosed for identifying a plurality of past videos posted via a first group of channels, determining, for each channel of a second group, an average number of access requests that a future video to be posted via a respective ...