US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Adaptive bitrate optimization for content delivery" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,877, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Adaptive bitrate optimization for content delivery" was invented by Krishnakanth Rapaka (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tarek Amara (Pleasanton, Calif.), Ryan Bickhart (San Francisco), John Bowers (Provo, Utah), Sunil Gopal Koteyar (Burlington, Canada), Richard Leider (San Francisco) and Hassan Heidari Namarvar (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems for adaptive bitrate optimization for live content delivery are disclosed. In some embodiments, such techniques may include extracting, in real-time, features from content segments of...