US Patent Issued to Valve on July 15 for "Tracking file system read operations for instant play of video games, and for client-side discarding and prefetching of game data" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,908, issued on July 15, was assigned to Valve Corp. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Tracking file system read operations for instant play of video games, and for client-side discarding and prefetching of game data" was invented by Pierre-Loup Miguel Griffais (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Client machines running game executables of a video game(s) may utilize a file system proxy component that is configured to track read operations made by the game executable during a game session, to generate access data based on the tracked read operations, and to report the access data to a remote system. This telemetry approach allows t...