ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,002, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Methods and apparatus for just-in-time content preparation in 5G networks" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of directing just-in-time content preparation for a 5G media streaming (5GMS) network performed by at least one processor implementing a 5GMS application provider, the method comprising creating a content preparation template, by the 5GMS application provider, wherein the content preparation template includes first information specifying instructions for content preparation, and second information spe...