US Patent Issued to T-Mobile USA on March 18 for "Proactive reduction of bit rate of streaming media en route to UE in response to prediction that UE will experience reduced-throughput coverage" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,941, issued on March 18, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Proactive reduction of bit rate of streaming media en route to UE in response to prediction that UE will experience reduced-throughput coverage" was invented by Hemanth B. Pawar (Brambleton, Va.), Krishna Sitaram (Chantilly, Va.) and Shilpa K. Srinivas (Brambleton, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for proactively reconfiguring communication to a user equipment device (UE) in anticipation the UE experiencing a coverage-throughput reduction when the UE is receiving streaming media. An example method includes (i) predicting, when the UE...