ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,497, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. (Basking Ridge, N.J.).

"Bandwidth management methods and systems based on client-side environment data" was invented by Liang Luo (Nutley, N.J.), Tom Hsi Hao Shang (Forest Hills, N.Y.), Elena Dotsenko (Princeton, N.J.) and Vidhya Seran (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative content server system associated with a server domain may transmit, to a client device associated with a client domain, a data stream representing media content. The media content is represented at a first quality level for presentation within a presentation environmen...