ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,747, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to VIASAT INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Delaycast queue prioritization" was invented by Mark D. Dankberg (Encinitas, Calif.), Daniel M. Newman (Littleton, Mass.) and Steven R. Hart (Carlsbad, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for optimizing resource utilization in a communications network while also optimizing subscriber engagement with media content over the communications network. Requested content objects can be identified as delayable objects that can be queued for opportunistically delayed communication to both requesting and non-requesting subscribers. Queued ...