ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,002, issued on April 15, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Method and system for quantifying effects of a content delivery network server on streaming-media quality and predicting root cause analysis" was invented by Xiaowen Mang (Morganville, N.J.), Carolyn Roche Johnson (Holmdel, N.J.), Gregory J. Smith (Shrewsbury, N.J.) and Peni-Taito Payne (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a threshold value of a streaming-media key performance indicator (KPI) based on a predetermined target portion of end-user devices that provide an accept...