US Patent Issued to Beijing Bytedance Network Technology on Oct. 28 for "Method and apparatus for video seeking and playing, terminal device and storage medium" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,490, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for video seeking and playing, terminal device and storage medium" was invented by Shinan Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for video seeking and playing, a terminal device, a storage medium, and a computer program product, and the method includes: obtaining first seeking information input by a user; determining a first playing node indicated by the first seeking information; predicting, according to the first seeking information, a second playing node, and buffering a target video fra...