US Patent Issued to VIASAT on July 14 for "Reducing network bandwidth consumption using generically encoded media objects" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,156, issued on July 14, was assigned to VIASAT INC. (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Reducing network bandwidth consumption using generically encoded media objects" was invented by Daniel M. Newman (Littleton, Mass.) and Mark D. Dankberg (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are ways to advantageously reduce bandwidth use between an internet service provider and its subscribers by re-encoding media objects to have a generic encoding that can be cached at subscriber devices. When a subscriber makes an authorized request for a media object from a content provider, a cached version of the generically encoded media objec...