ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,416, issued on April 22, was assigned to Dolby International AB (Dublin).
"Method and device for adaptive playout of media content" was invented by Jonas Moeller Larsen (Erlangen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method for controlling media data playout on a client device, wherein the method includes the steps of: (a) retrieving, by the client device, media data comprising a plurality of segments subdivided into one or more chunks for playout from at least one media server; (b) analyzing a current chunk of the one or more chunks of a current segment; and (c) adapting the playout of the media data in respon...