ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,300, issued on Feb. 18.
"Media streaming" was invented by Pierre Racz (Montreal) and Frederic Rioux (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media playback system for presenting to a user a composition of a plurality of media streams. It has a media selection component configured to receive a scenario dataset, to receive user input for selecting viewing times defining segments of media and composition selections, and to output a list of segments of media from the scenario dataset that are authorized to be viewed by the user. The system has a playback control component configured to retrieve from media storage at least the segments ...