ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,071, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Method for transmitting streaming media data and related device" was invented by Bowen Zheng (Nanjing, China) and Xuesen Lin (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data streaming method includes determining M key frames in a target group of pictures GOP, where the target GOP includes L frames, M is an integer greater than 0, and L is an integer greater than 2. Scalable encoding is performed on source data of each of the M key frames to generate M pieces of base layer data and N pieces of extension layer data, where data quality of ext...