ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,906, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to DISH Network Technologies India Private Ltd. (India).
"Buffer management for pre-cached audio/visual data" was invented by Vimalraj Ganesan (Bangalore, India), Amit Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Rakesh Eluvan (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices and automated processes are described for improving media streaming in a server device through intelligent selection of initial cache bitrates. The initial cache bitrate is selected with consideration to both historical data and operating parameters of the server device. Operating parameters can include an amount of cache mem...