US Patent Issued to Yahoo Ad Tech on March 18 for "Systems and methods for utilizing unused network capacity for prefetch requests" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,971, issued on March 18, was assigned to Yahoo Ad Tech LLC (New York).

"Systems and methods for utilizing unused network capacity for prefetch requests" was invented by Seth Mitchell Demsey (Dulles, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed for utilizing unused network capacity for prefetch requests. One method includes: receiving, over a network, network traffic information from a network provider of the network; determining a threshold value for prefetch request fulfillment based on the received network traffic information; receiving, over the network, a plurality of prefetch re...