US Patent Issued to Q'LIGENT on Nov. 11 for "Optimized over-the-top delivery of content for linear services" (Canadian, Russian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,776, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Q'LIGENT Corp. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Optimized over-the-top delivery of content for linear services" was invented by Brick Eksten (Uxbridge, Canada) and Andrey Gaynulin (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing content as a linear content stream. The method comprises receiving and segregating the content into data packages, identifying each data package with a unique signature, and responsive to a request from a receiving system, receiving first data packages at the receiving system. A modified manifest that identifies each data package according to its unique...