ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,834, issued on July 8, was assigned to Beijing YoJaJa Software Technology Development Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Content playback optimization using nearline information" was invented by Renfei Shang (Beijing), Tongyu Dai (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 determines training data from first nearline features for a first sliding time window and a fixed time window. The first sliding time window changes during a first time period and the fixed time window is static during the first time period. A prediction model is trained using the training data. The prediction...