US Patent Issued to Akamai Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Server-side adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR) with manifest file encoding" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,328, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Akamai Technologies Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Server-side adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR) with manifest file encoding" was invented by Harald Kadaroesman (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An enhanced server-side Adaptive Bitrate Streaming (ABR) of source content. The ABR switching logic is located in association with a server, and this logic also receives telemetry data as measured by the client. The client receives a single manifest that comprises a set of encoded entries each associated with a segment of the source content and comprising a first portion encoding, as a set of options, ...