ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,531, issued on July 22.
"Placement of repair packets in multimedia data streams" was invented by Shailesh Ramamurthy (Bangalore, India), Swapan Kumar Kundu (Bangalore, India), Murali Babu Muthukrishnan (Bangalore, India) and Arunkumar Mohananchettiar (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a method for delivering a multimedia data stream includes determining a frequency for generating one or more repair packets and a placement for positioning the one or more repair packets in the multimedia data stream based on a configuration parameter related to the multimedia data stream. The frequency and the placement may...