ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,188, issued on July 14, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for delivery of content via multicast and unicast" was invented by Rajendran Pichaimurthy (Bangalore, India), Madhusudhan Seetharam (Bangalore, India) and Harshith Kumar Gejjegondanahally Sreekanth (Shivamogga, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system and methods described aid content delivery by providing requested content using a hybrid delivery of unicast and multicast content. A content delivery system receives, from user equipment, a request for content and identifies multicast sources for the content. The content delivery s...