US Patent Issued to Turner Broadcasting System on May 13 for "Dynamic playout buffer for media output stream" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,893, issued on May 13, was assigned to Turner Broadcasting System Inc. (Atlanta).

"Dynamic playout buffer for media output stream" was invented by Donald Jude Loheide (Mableton, Ga.), Nishith Kumar Sinha (Mableton, Ga.) and Nicolas Paul Webb (McDonough, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for dynamic playout buffer for disparate live media output stream. A request is received that comprises a stream identifier and an additional parameter. In accordance with a playout buffer feature and the additional parameter, a first disparate live media output stream is generated based on an insertion of manifest data and index...