ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,033, issued on June 17, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Server selected variable bitrate streaming" was invented by Cory Zachman (Denver), Guy Grigsby (Denver) and Carl Veazey (Longmont, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed for server selected bitrate streaming. A server receives a request from a user device for data segments at a first bitrate. The server determines a second bitrate for transmission of the data segments to the user device. The server transmits the requested data segments at the determined second bitrate."
The patent was filed on Feb. ...