US Patent Issued to DISNEY ENTERPRISES on Sept. 2 for "Method and system for optimizing bitrate selection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,822, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to DISNEY ENTERPRISES INC. (Burbank, Calif.).

"Method and system for optimizing bitrate selection" was invented by Samuel Joseph Reisner (Burbank, Calif.) and Michael Kidd (Burbank, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including encoding a video program into a plurality of video streams, each of the plurality of video streams being encoded at a corresponding one of a plurality of bitrates; providing, to a plurality of viewing clients, an option to select one of the plurality of video streams; determining a streaming capacity of each of the viewing clients; and determining an improved plu...