US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on June 9 for "Techniques for traffic surge protection of live origin server" (Maryland, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,426, issued on June 9, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Techniques for traffic surge protection of live origin server" was invented by Xiaomei Liu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Joseph Lynch (Gaithersburg, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment of a method for responding to requests for media content includes receiving a first request from a first client for at least one segment of a media content item, retrieving, from a datastore, a reference to each segment included in the at least one segment, retrieving, from a cache, the at least one segment of the media content item based on the reference to each segment i...