Verizon and Digital Entertainment Services Assigned Patent

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ, and Verizon and Redbox Digital Entertainment Services, LLC, Basking Ridge, NJ, has been assigned a patent (9,398,316) developed by Ruffini, Michael P., Methuen, MA, Hao, Jianxiu, Acton, MA, Subramanian, Sankar, Ossining, NY, and Scott, Joseph E., Flower Mound, TX, for a “temporary storage of recorded content on a cloud storage server.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A server device may receive, from a user device, a request to store a unique copy of particular content, associated with a particular user, store, in a storage device associated with the server device, the unique copy of the particular content, determine a set of attributes of the particular content, determine a set of criteria based on which the unique copy of the particular content should be provided to the user device, the determining being based on one or more attributes, of the set of attributes of the particular content, determine that the set of criteria have been met, output, based on determining that the set of criteria have been met, the unique copy of the particular content to the user device, and delete the unique copy of the particular content from the storage device after outputting the particular content to the user device.“

The patent application was filed on February 17, 2014 (14/182,207).