US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on Sept. 29 for "Accurate global eventual counting" (California, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,674, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Accurate global eventual counting" was invented by Varun Khaitan (San Francisco), Joseph Lynch (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Rajiv Shringi (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving, from a first endpoint device, a first event during a first time period, modifying an event log to include a record associated with the first event, causing a rollup queue to include a request to count a first count value associated with the first event, and generating, in a second time period subsequent to ...