ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,044, issued on July 8, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for reducing dowload requirements" was invented by Justin Lewis (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Richard Rapp (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of reducing computer resource requirements for display of additional content on a client device configured for playback of media content can include determining, by an application installed on a client device, that display of additional content has been triggered from a first context of the application, identifying, by the application, a context identifier corresponding to t...