ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,150, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Dynamically adaptive media content delivery" was invented by Aaron Son (Los Angeles) and Brian Hendriks (Pacific Palisades, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Media content delivery method and systems are provided for transmitting media content to a mobile client device in a format automatically selected from alternative versions of the media content based on one or more dynamically variable resource parameters. The variable resource parameters can include historical device and/or network performance corresponding to one or more current attributes applicable...