US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods for reducing digital video latency" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,928, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for reducing digital video latency" was invented by Eric M. Hoffert (New York), Jeffrey Weiss (Chatsworth, Calif.), Vikki Pitts (Northridge, Calif.), Alexander Krassel (Encino, Calif.), Yevgeniy Nisman (New York) and Radhika Shivapurkar (Woodland Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the systems and methods described herein relate to reducing latency issues associated with playing online digital video on client devices. An example method includes: determining a likelihood that a user will trigger presen...