US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on May 13 for "Optimization of bitrate adaptation and prefetching for short-form video" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,931, issued on May 13, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Optimization of bitrate adaptation and prefetching for short-form video" was invented by Theodore Karagioules (Jersey City, N.J.), Emir Halepovic (Somerset, N.J.), Subhabrata Sen (Edison, N.J.) and Vijay Gopalakrishnan (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes acquiring a playlist identifying a plurality of video files to be played back during a video streaming session on an endpoint device, obtaining, from an operator of a communications network over which the video files are to be downloaded, a maximum throughput for the video st...