US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on May 13 for "Methods and systems for maintaining smooth frame rate during transmission of streaming video content" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,899, issued on May 13, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Methods and systems for maintaining smooth frame rate during transmission of streaming video content" was invented by Claes Christian Rickeby (Trabuco Canyon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and system include receiving frames of data generated for an online game, from a server device and encoding the frames using an encoder. Each encoded frame of data is transmitted to a client device over a network, for rendering. A monitoring engine is used to evaluate the data contained in the encoded frame to determine if an amount of data containe...