US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on April 22 for "Methods and devices for handling media data streams" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,404, issued on April 22, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Methods and devices for handling media data streams" was invented by Chris Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.), Robert Hammond Forsman Jr. (Sugar Hill, Ga.) and Sarel Cohen (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a server device for handling media data streams. The sever device obtains multiple streams of source media data of varying resolution each having multiple source frames. Each source frame is divided into a plurality of tiles. The server device selects a subset of tiles from least o...