US 11,720,488 B2
Garbage collection of preloaded time-based graph data
Jonathan David Lutz, Seattle, WA (US); Allen Arthur Gay, Shoreline, WA (US); and Dylan Carney, Seattle, WA (US)
Assigned to HOME BOX OFFICE, INC., New York, NY (US)
Filed by Home Box Office, Inc., New York, NY (US)
Filed on Jan. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/648,555.
Application 17/648,555 is a continuation of application No. 16/720,838, filed on Dec. 19, 2019, granted, now 11,269,768.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/783,289, filed on Dec. 21, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0147447 A1, May 12, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 12/00 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01); G06F 12/0862 (2016.01)
CPC G06F 12/0253 (2013.01) [G06F 12/0862 (2013.01); G06F 16/9024 (2019.01); G06F 2212/1044 (2013.01); G06F 2212/602 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
determining, by a system comprising a processor, that a content selection graph preloaded into a memory is no longer in use;
determining that an orphaned graph in the memory is not mapped to a timepoint and is not an outstanding graph that is not yet built or is not yet validated; and
garbage collecting, by the system, the content selection graph and the orphaned graph from the memory.