ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,396, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hangzhou AliCloud Apsara Information Technology Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Live-streaming processing method and apparatus" was invented by Liqun Xie (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a live-streaming processing method and apparatus, where the live-streaming processing method includes: using a virtual character to live-stream in a live-streaming room and acquiring a live-streaming setting parameter of the live-streaming room, where the live-streaming setting parameter includes an intelligent broadcast time interval corresponding to ...