ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,095, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Adaptive playback method and device for video" was invented by Bing Yan (Beijing), Xigui Wang (Beijing) and Hui Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an adaptive playback method and device for video, the method includes: receiving a playback instruction for a target video; and playing the target video according to a first code rate in response to the playback instruction; where the first code rate is determined by the following steps: predicting by using a network speed prediction algorit...