US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on Nov. 3 for "Systems and methods for simulating web traffic associated with an unlaunched web feature" (California, Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,094, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for simulating web traffic associated with an unlaunched web feature" was invented by Shyam Bharat Gala (San Jose, Calif.), Jose Raul Fernandez (San Jose, Calif.), Edward Henry Barker (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Henry Joseph Jacobs IV (Camas, Wash.), Javier Fernandez-Ivern (Prosper, Texas), Anup Rokkam Pratap (Campbell, Calif.), Devang Shah (Milpitas, Calif.) and Tejas C. Shikhare (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for simulating web traffic to sandbox-test a new digital content platform service or feature. F...