ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,616, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Context aware edge computing and progressive depletion of content" was invented by Sathya Santhar (Ramapuram, India), Sridevi Kannan (Katupakkam, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Samuel Mathew Jawaharlal (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for context aware edge computing and progressive depletion of content is provided. The computer-implemented method includes receiving, at an edge server, a request for a media file sourced from a main server and having media file data temporarily ...