US Patent Issued to DIVX on March 25 for "Systems and methods for performing adaptive bitrate streaming" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,051, issued on March 25, was assigned to DIVX LLC (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for performing adaptive bitrate streaming" was invented by Jason Braness (San Diego), Auke Sjoerd van der Schaar (Los Angeles) and Kourosh Soroushian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing trick play functionality using trick play streams during adaptive bitrate streaming in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment includes requesting a video container index from a video container file containing a video stream from a plurality of alternative streams of video; requesting at least...