ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,879, issued on March 4, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Media presentation description" was invented by Alexander Giladi (Princeton, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for indicating repeat occurrences of advertisements in media content may include one or more of the following. The method may include inserting a first descriptor element for a media content in a media presentation description (MPD) associated with the media content. The method may include inserting a second descriptor element for a repeat occurrence of the media content in the MPD. The second descriptor element may indi...