ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,628, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sling TV LLC (Englewood, Colo.).
"Bandwidth management using dynamic quality factor adjustments" was invented by Greg Gillis (Riverton, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for managing bandwidth of an encoded media content stream by dynamically varying the quality of the encoded media content. One method involves encoding the media content using a first value for a quality factor, determining one or more metrics indicative of a bandwidth associated with the encoded portion of the media content, determining an adjustment for the quality factor to obtain an adjust...