ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,930, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Tencent Technology Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Streaming media transmission method and apparatus, electronic device, and computer- readable storage medium" was invented by Ying Hu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A streaming media transmission method and apparatus are provided. The method may include: parsing streaming media transmission signaling to obtain a ranking relationship descriptor of each streaming media object.) The method may further include forming a ranking relationship set with at least two streaming media objects having the same ranking identifier field. The method...