ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,823, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).
"Encoded output data stream transmission" was invented by Joe Mammone (Kanata, Canada) and Michael Mead Truman (Mercer Island, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a first device receives a stream of application audio data, encodes the stream of application audio data, and in response to detecting an end of the stream of application audio data, provides pre-encoded filler audio data from a buffer in the first device as an encoded stream of filler audio data. The first device transmits the encoded stream of application audio data and the encode...