ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,323, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Netflix Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
"Data detection using intelligent sampling" was invented by Scott Lamar Lewis (San Jose, Calif.), Yvonne Yu Zhou (San Francisco), Sarika Shankar Padmashali (San Jose, Calif.), Prithviraj Ajay Vishwakarma (San Francisco) and Omkar Joshi (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes determining that a specific type of information is to be identified in a set of data. The method further includes sampling the set of data according to various sampling criteria to identify the specified type of information. The sampling criter...