US Patent Issued to DIVX on March 4 for "Systems and methods for adaptive buffering for digital video streaming" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,660, issued on March 4, was assigned to DIVX LLC (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for adaptive buffering for digital video streaming" was invented by Amit Bhimsen Suri (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for adaptive buffering in accordance with embodiments of the invention enable a reduced minimum buffer time. One embodiment includes a playback device comprising a memory; a network interface; and a processor that reads instructions stored in the memory that directs the processor to: download digital video content in a buffer of a playback device; receive a minimum buffer time from the digital video content...