US Patent Issued to Apple on April 8 for "On-device machine learning-based network bandwidth prediction to improve adaptive media streaming performance" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,253, issued on April 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"On-device machine learning-based network bandwidth prediction to improve adaptive media streaming performance" was invented by Soutik Chakraborty (Sunnyvale, Calif.), John Y. Su (Saratoga, Calif.), Eunhee Lim (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jacob A. Baron (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media streaming method is disclosed in which a network environment of a sink device engaged in media streaming is estimated and at least two network throughput estimates are developed. A first network throughput estimate may be estimated from a measurement of ne...