US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 5 for "Uplink and downlink streaming bit rate assistance in 4G and 5G networks" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,479, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego, Colombia).

"Uplink and downlink streaming bit rate assistance in 4G and 5G networks" was invented by Charles Nung Lo (San Diego), Imed Bouazizi (Frisco, Texas), Nikolai Konrad Leung (San Francisco) and Thomas Stockhammer (Bergen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments may provide streaming service downlink network assistance and/or uplink network assistance mechanisms in a fifth generation (5G) system (5GS) network via an Application Function (AF) computing device in a 5GS. In some embodiments, a computing device and/or the AF computing device may inf...