ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,569, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SNAPPI INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Transport protocol for anticipatory content" was invented by William B. Sebastian (Campton, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems for improving utilization of a communications system (e.g., a satellite communications system) are provided, using delayed reliability techniques as part of a multicast transport protocol. Embodiments may operate in a client-server context, in which the server-side of the communication link multicasts data to requesting users and to users where the data is being speculatively prepositioned. Requesting u...