The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document.
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:
Jun. 09, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2024
Applicant:
Netflix, Inc., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Inventors:
Xiaomei Liu, Cupertino, CA (US);
Joseph Lynch, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
Assignee:
NETFLIX, INC., Los Gatos, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/239 (2011.01); H04N 21/2183 (2011.01); H04N 21/222 (2011.01); H04N 21/231 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2393 (2013.01); H04N 21/2183 (2013.01); H04N 21/222 (2013.01); H04N 21/23106 (2013.01);
Abstract
One embodiment of a method for responding to requests for media content includes receiving a first request from a first client for at least one segment of a media content item, retrieving, from a datastore, a reference to each segment included in the at least one segment, retrieving, from a cache, the at least one segment of the media content item based on the reference to each segment included in the at least one segment, and transmitting the at least one segment of the media content item to the first client.