ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,333, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Data transfer reduction" was invented by Charan Acharya Chandrashekar (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer server receives requests from a plurality of devices for digital content for rendering in a virtual computer environment. Based on geographic locations of the plurality of devices, the computer server groups the plurality of devices into at least one group. For a group in the at least one group, the computer server designate a device in the group as a local server, shares information associated with the device de...