US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on April 22 for "Techniques for composite media storage and retrieval" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,406, issued on April 22, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Techniques for composite media storage and retrieval" was invented by Christopher Newton (Westlake Village, Calif.), Carenina Garcia Motion (San Jose, Calif.) and Vinod Vishwanathan (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment sets forth a technique that includes receiving a request for a range of data included in an encoded version of the media title that is stored across a set of files. The technique also includes determining, based on a file extent index, one or more files included in the set of files, wherein the file extent index maps ...