US Patent Issued to BEIJING HULU SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT on Dec. 16 for "Adaptive bitrate streaming using video quality information" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,087, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to BEIJING HULU SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Adaptive bitrate streaming using video quality information" was invented by Lemei Huang (Beijing), Tongyu Dai (Beijing), Wenhao Zhang (Beijing), Si Chen (Beijing) and Chenyu Tian (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method receives quality metric values for profile levels in a plurality of profile levels for a segment of content. An available bandwidth and associated bitrates of profile levels in the plurality of profile levels are evaluated to select a first profile level. The quality metric values for ...