US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on April 14 for "Predictive network capacity scaling based on customer interest" (Missouri, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,850, issued on April 14, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Predictive network capacity scaling based on customer interest" was invented by Nicholas Nicas (Blue Springs, Mo.), Todd Fryer (Liberty, Mo.) and David Irvin (Lawrence, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for scaling network capacity predictively, based on customer interest. For instance, in one example, a method includes predicting an interest of a first customer in data content that will be available for consumption over a data network at a time in the ...