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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2023
Activision Publishing, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Adrian Astley, Portland, ME (US);
Sean Houghton, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Activision Publishing, Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for distributing an image file and a plurality of data chunks in a video game development environment include at least one game studio that has a plurality of client computing devices and at least one cache node in data communication with each other over a first network local to the at least one game studio. The plurality of client computing devices are in data communication, through the at least one cache node, with remotely located metadata and object storage servers over a wide area network. The image file includes a manifest of one or more game files and of the plurality of data chunks. The image file is referenced by a hash of data indicative of the image file while each of the plurality of data chunks is referenced by a hash of data indicative of each of the plurality of data chunks.