US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on June 17 for "Fire-and-forget offload mechanism for network-based services" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,345, issued on June 17, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Fire-and-forget offload mechanism for network-based services" was invented by Antoine Jean Girbal (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a proxy application processes requests associated with a network-based service. In operation, the proxy application determines that a first request received from a client application indicates that a response to the first request can be offloaded from a server machine. Prior to transmitting the first request to the server machine, the proxy application transmits a response to the first reque...