ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,487, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Method and apparatus for receiving adaptive media streaming and adaptive media streaming system" was invented by Je-Won Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Joon-Young Jung (Daejeon, South Korea), Dong-Joon Choi (Daejeon, South Korea) and Eun-Hee Hyun (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for receiving adaptive media streaming. The method may include calculating segment download time for each video quality level based on network throughput, a segment bitrate for the video quality le...