ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,401, issued on April 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Content distribution server and method" was invented by Wei Huang (Jiangsu, China) and Weijun Shi (Jiangsu, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content distribution server, including a central server and a plurality of edge servers. The central server may be configured to obtain popularity ranking information of the video files according to video file requesting history of user terminals, and obtain sections of multiple video files based on the popularity ranking information from a content server and transmit the sections to the ed...