ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,005, issued on June 24, was assigned to SHANGHAI HODE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Video playback method and apparatus, device, and readable storage medium" was invented by Junqi Chen (Shanghai), Mengyuan Tang (Shanghai), Ruipeng Chen (Shanghai), Le Yin (Shanghai), Weixuan Hu (Shanghai) and Xiaoxuan Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses techniques of playing videos. The techniques comprise caching a video resource of a target onto a plurality of content delivery network (CDN) nodes; establishing a long link with each of a plurality of client computing devices in response to detectin...