ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,597, issued on July 1, was assigned to Spotify AB (Stockholm).
"Predictive caching" was invented by Daniel Bromand (Stockholm), Horia Jurcut (Hagersten, Sweden), Carl-Johan Larsson (Stockholm) and Fredrik Hakansson (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for predicting user and media-playback device states are provided. Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for media content item caching on a media-playback device are also provided. Systems, devices, apparatuses, components, methods, and techniques for predicting a destination are also pr...