US Patent Issued to Apple on June 24 for "Systems and methods of using a media bit rate curve for streaming bit rate adaption" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,841, issued on June 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods of using a media bit rate curve for streaming bit rate adaption" was invented by Roger N. Pantos (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus of a device that receives streaming content is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives a media playlist for the content, wherein the media playlist references a plurality of media stream and each of the plurality of media stream are encoded at a different bit rate. The device further determines an initial media stream selected from the plurality of medi...