US Patent Issued to Turner Broadcasting System on Aug. 12 for "Method and system for managing a pre-encoded media asset for immediate playback" (Georgia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,051, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Turner Broadcasting System Inc. (Atlanta).

"Method and system for managing a pre-encoded media asset for immediate playback" was invented by Donald Jude Loheide (Mableton, Ga.), Nishith Kumar Sinha (Mableton, Ga.), Nicolas Paul Webb (McDonough, Ga.), Pramod Reddy Patlolla (Fremont, Calif.) and Robert Jameson (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for managing a pre-encoded media asset for immediate playback. The system generates, based on a receipt of an initial manifest request from a first client device, an initial pre-encoded media asset manifest that comprises an...