US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Seamless automatic repeat request (ARQ) content streaming" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,824, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Seamless automatic repeat request (ARQ) content streaming" was invented by Evan Gerald Statton (Denver), Bryan Michael Samis (Freelton, Canada), Michael Henry (Bend, Ore.), Ryan Paul Hegar (Happy Valley, Ore.) and Sydney Dean Lovely (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing a seamless automatic repeat request (ARQ) stream are provided. The system can include a plurality of streaming servers, a load balancer, and an ARQ streaming service. The ARQ streaming service obtains encoded content segments and transmits the segment...