US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on June 17 for "Intelligent delivery and playout to prevent stalling in video streaming" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,563, issued on June 17, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Intelligent delivery and playout to prevent stalling in video streaming" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Reda Harb (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed to mitigate stalling of streaming content due to rebuffering so that, e.g., the content consumer does not experience gaps in playback. In some embodiments, by buffering streaming content simultaneously at two bitrate levels-e.g., one of the lowest bitrates and a better-quality bitrate, within the bandwidth limitations-rebuffering-caused gaps in p...