US Patent Issued to DISH Technologies on July 29 for "Apparatus, system, and method for multi-bitrate content streaming" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,545, issued on July 29, was assigned to DISH Technologies L.L.C (Englewood, Colo.).

"Apparatus, system, and method for multi-bitrate content streaming" was invented by Mark B. Hurst (Cedar Hills, Utah) and David F. Brueck (Saratoga Springs, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and method for maintaining a programming lineup of adaptive-bitrate content streaming is provided. The apparatus includes a timeline module configured to maintain a programming lineup of media content available over a network. The media content may comprise a plurality of streamlets. The apparatus also includes at least one data module conf...