US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on Aug. 25 for "Techniques for selectively delaying responses to premature requests for encoded media content" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,134, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Techniques for selectively delaying responses to premature requests for encoded media content" was invented by Christopher Alan Newton (North Richland Hills, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a segment delivery application streams segments of downloadables to client devices. At a first point-in-time, the segment delivery application receives a request from a server for a segment of a downloadable. The segment delivery application determines that the segment is not available and that the segment is a next expected segment of the downl...