ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,580, issued on March 24, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Method to manage file downloads" was invented by Olaf Pollakowski (Berlin) and Linda Horn (Randolph, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for downloading files from a MnS consumer to a MnS producer. One method may include a MnS producer receiving a request to create a file download job object associated with a file download job from a management service consumer and initiating the file download job. The MnS producer may further transmit download progress status information associated with the ...