US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on Feb. 10 for "Freeze detection in video communication sessions" (Texas, New Jersey, New Mexico Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,616, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Freeze detection in video communication sessions" was invented by Hao Kang (Plano, Texas), Junping Zhang (Freehold, N.J.), Yuan Ding (Plainsboro, N.J.), Tzvi Chumash (Matawan, N.J.), Pranith Dachepally (Aubrey, Texas) and Matthew Foust (Albuquerque, N.M.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system may obtain network performance data sets associated with a video communication session from a customer premises equipment, the network performance data sets including data sets for measurements of video uplink and downlink data rates. The processing s...