US Patent Issued to DIVX on April 1 for "Systems and methods for seeking within multimedia content during streaming playback" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,267,380, issued on April 1, was assigned to DIVX LLC (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for seeking within multimedia content during streaming playback" was invented by Roland Osborne (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver driven approach for playback of remote content is described. One embodiment includes obtaining information concerning the content of the media file from the remote server, identifying a starting location within the media sequence, identifying byte ranges of the media file corresponding to media required to play the media sequence from the starting location, requesting the byte ranges required to play t...