US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on June 16 for "Prioritized polling mechanism for efficiently managing distributed queues in content creation pipelines" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,063, issued on June 16, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Prioritized polling mechanism for efficiently managing distributed queues in content creation pipelines" was invented by Alexander Schworer (San Francisco), Gina Shinzu Granger (Studio City, Calif.), Murthy Parthasarathi (San Jose, Calif.), Rajnish Prasad (San Jose, Calif.) and Jose Thomas (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments a computer-implemented method for launching a task associated with a content production pipeline in a non-native computing environment is disclosed. The method includes publishing user code associated wi...