US Patent Issued to World Multicast on June 24 for "Method using adaptive-bit-rate playlists for dynamic server capacity and broadband handovers" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,014, issued on June 24, was assigned to World Multicast Inc. (Danville, Calif.).

"Method using adaptive-bit-rate playlists for dynamic server capacity and broadband handovers" was invented by Ian Alban Stewart (Ventura, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of using HLS (or DASH) server emulation to implement dynamic server capacity using point-to-multipoint or point-to-point Internet communication protocols. In a wireless handover setting, this system utilizes network address translators running on distributed gateways or tower infrastructure. The system uses adaptive bit rate emulated servers to effectively update and resy...