US Patent Issued to Valve on Oct. 27 for "Delivery of digital information to a remote device" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,601, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Valve Corp. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Delivery of digital information to a remote device" was invented by Taylor Karsten Sherman (Seattle) and John Cook (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems relating to a file distribution scheme in a computer network are disclosed that distributes files in an efficient manner that reduces, among other things, network traffic. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for updating a file is disclosed. In such a method, unique chunks in a first version of a digital file are identified. For a second version of the digital file, chunks that are t...