US Patent Issued to Beijing YoJaJa Software Technology Development on Jan. 28 for "Cross-period quality smoothing in adaptive bitrate algorithm" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,798, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Beijing YoJaJa Software Technology Development Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Cross-period quality smoothing in adaptive bitrate algorithm" was invented by Tongyu Dai (Beijing), Si Chen (Beijing), Wenhao Zhang (Beijing), Boya Lai (Beijing), Chao Li (Beijing) and Weiran Shi (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method generates a reward function for an adaptive bitrate function that is based on a bandwidth and profiles in a profile ladder for a current segment of content. The reward function indicates a first profile should be selected for the current segment. The method performs ...