ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,108, issued on March 11, was assigned to Conviva Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Automatic diagnostics alerts for streaming content encoded by multiple entities" was invented by Yan Li (Foster City, Calif.), Rui Zhang (San Mateo, Calif.), Henry Milner (Berkeley, Calif.) and Jibin Zhan (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic diagnostics alerts for streaming multiple types of content is disclosed. At a first time, a set of metrics for a plurality of groups of streaming sessions is computed. A streaming session in a group is associated with streaming of a piece of content encoded by an entity. The streaming of the pi...