US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on July 29 for "Retrieving and accessing segment chunks for media streaming" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,779, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Retrieving and accessing segment chunks for media streaming" was invented by Thomas Stockhammer (Bergen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example device for retrieving media data includes one or more processors implemented in circuitry and configured to receive a manifest file including data indicating a number of segment chunks available for a segment of a representation of media data, the segment comprising an independently retrievable media file having a unique uniform resource locator (URL), determine an identifier for one of the chunks using the data in...