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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2025
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2022
Applicant:
Edge Networks, Inc., Sun Valley, ID (US);
Inventors:
Mitch Weinraub, Englewood, CO (US);
Imran Arif Maskatia, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/232 (2011.01); H04N 21/466 (2011.01); H04N 21/482 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/232 (2013.01); H04N 21/4667 (2013.01); H04N 21/482 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of communicating a media asset includes: receiving a media asset selection from a viewer, determining if the selected media asset is available in a memory of a user device or is currently being broadcast to the user device associated with the viewer, if the selected media asset is available in the memory: retrieving the selected media asset, else: retrieving the selected media asset from a network location and communicating an identity of the requested media asset to a controller.