ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,617, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Netflix Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
"Predetermining network route for content steering" was invented by Ishaan Shastri (San Jose, Calif.) and James Schek (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method includes determining that incoming media item requests are to be skewed from a random distribution among server nodes, using a random distribution algorithm, to a directed distribution among the server nodes. The method then includes identifying, in a loading assignment, which media items are to be loaded onto specific server nodes to produce the directed ...