US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 18 for "Media server proxy that switches streaming media protocols" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,026, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Media server proxy that switches streaming media protocols" was invented by Ilja Tsahhirov (Bellevue, Wash.), Mihhail Konovalov (Kirkland, Wash.), Rajesh Gunnalan (Sammamish, Wash.) and Tin Qian (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media server proxy switches streaming media protocols ("SMPs") during streaming of media segments. The media server proxy receives a request, from a playback tool, according to a first SMP to provide information about outgoing media segments of a media sequence. The media server proxy generates the inf...