ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,921, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Methods and systems for streaming media content" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for streaming media content. A first portion of a media content item is received at a bandwidth available to a user device, wherein the quality of the first portion is based on the bandwidth available. A second portion of the media content item is received at a decreased or increased bandwidth, wherein the quality of the second portion is based on the increased or decreased bandwidth available to the ...