US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on July 14 for "Selective delaying of provisioning, to assistant device(s), assistant data that is locally utilizable by a corresponding local assistant client" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,909, issued on July 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Selective delaying of provisioning, to assistant device(s), assistant data that is locally utilizable by a corresponding local assistant client" was invented by Benedict Liang (New York), Bryan Christopher Horling (Belmont, Mass.) and Lan Huo (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations set forth herein relate to conditionally delaying fulfillment of client update requests in order to preserve network bandwidth and other resources that may be consumed when an ecosystem of linked assistant devices are repeatedly pinging servers for updates. In som...