US Patent Issued to Pluto on Sept. 9 for "Content delivery network utilizing dynamically assembled adaptive bitrates segments" (Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,806, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Pluto Inc. (West Hollywood, Calif.).

"Content delivery network utilizing dynamically assembled adaptive bitrates segments" was invented by Steven Ernest Riedl (Atlanta) and Spencer Shanson (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aspect of the disclosure related to methods and systems configured to detect that an item of streaming primary video content associated with a channel of scheduled streaming content is designated to be streamed to a device. Ancillary content is identified. Alternative versions of respective sections of the ancillary content are identified. Metadata corres...