ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,896, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for improving groupcast media streaming using metric information in device-to-device communications" was invented by Antti Heikkinen (Oulu, Finland) and Mikko Uitto (Oulu, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for improving communications between computing devices. A content item is received at a first computing device, and a sidelink channel is initiated between the first computing device and a second computing device. A first portion of the content item is transmitted from the first computing device t...