US Patent Issued to Roku on June 23 for "Distributing digital data in a distributed computing environment" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,118, issued on June 23, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributing digital data in a distributed computing environment" was invented by Mehul Sanghavi (San Jose, Calif.) and Emily Jeanne Smith (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for distributing digital data. In some embodiments, a server receives a request to distribute digital data to be consumed by a plurality of users. The request indicates that the digital data is to be distributed based on a p...