US Patent Issued to Google on July 21 for "Speeding up document loading" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,248, issued on July 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Speeding up document loading" was invented by Ramkumar Ramani (Cupertino, Calif.) and Robert J. Ennals (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speeding up document loading. In some implementations, a resource of a document is requested from a first source, and metadata for the document is requested from a second source that is different from the first source. The requested metadata is received from the second source, and the requested resource is ...