US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on May 27 for "Data transport compression and reduction based upon intra-content user focus" (Florida, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,037, issued on May 27, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Data transport compression and reduction based upon intra-content user focus" was invented by Lucus Haugen (Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.) and Jianlei Zhang (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to data transport compression and reduction based upon intra-content user focus. In one aspect disclosed herein, a device, such as an extended reality ("XR") headset, can determine an intra-content focus area of a user viewing a display. The device can provide the intra-content focus area to a content ser...