US Patent Issued to DIVX on March 11 for "Systems and methods for encoding and sharing content between devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,257, issued on March 11, was assigned to DIVX LLC (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for encoding and sharing content between devices" was invented by Song Cen (San Diego) and Reza Emdad (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for sharing content between devices are disclosed. To request a shared piece of media content, a playback device generates and sends a request to content server. The playback device includes information in the request that indicates the playback capabilities of the device. The content server receives the request and determines the playback capabilities of the playback device from the infor...