ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,156, issued on June 17, was assigned to VIASAT INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).
"Release-time based prioritization of on-board content" was invented by Daniel Newman (Littleton, Mass.) and David McNeil (O'Fallon, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Approaches are described for release-time-driven (RTD) prioritization of on-board content scheduling and delivery to in-transit transport craft via communications systems. In context of a constrained network, content is scheduled to be delivered to those in-transit on-board media servers in a manner driven by respective release times and other prioritization factors associated with the updated cont...