ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,516, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"Effectively downloading large files for virtual environment" was invented by Takatsugu Ishikawa (Tokyo), Yidao Wang (Tokyo) and Makoto Ono (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual environment system comprises one or more processors. At least one of the processors executes a process of downloading, by a first Pod of a plurality of Pods, a file from a first download path written in a management file. At least one of the processors executes a process of, when a description indicating that the file has been downloaded to any of the plurality of Pods is not inclu...