US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on Oct. 21 for "Techniques for delivering current media content via content delivery networks" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,326, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Techniques for delivering current media content via content delivery networks" was invented by Christopher Alan Newton (North Richland Hills, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a caching application streams segments of a downloadable to a client device. At a first point-in-time, the caching application receives a first request for a first segment of the downloadable from the client device. The caching application computes a cache key based on a request Uniform Resource Locator included in the first request and a version identifier ass...