ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,036, issued on July 14, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Download control device" was invented by Hiroyuki Koreeda (Fujisawa, Japan) and Satoshi Mio (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When download operations get started in unison in conformity to RSS metafile delivery time-and-date information, the traffic is temporarily concentrated to a server, resulting in the risk of a system failure or else. In addition, it is inevitable to periodically check whether an RSS file on Web server is updated or not; so, users must delete update-unnecessary RSS files from those objects to be monitored. In view of this, the pe...