ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,109, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Netflix Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
"Media aware content placement" was invented by Videsh Sadafal (Omaha, Neb.) and Ishaan Shastri (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method includes accessing cluster hardware information that identifies at least two different types of storage media within a cluster and provides an indication of a respective amount of data throughput for each identified type of storage media. The method next includes accessing popularity information for digital content that is to be stored in the cluster. The popularity information i...