US Patent Issued to YAHOO ASSETS on May 6 for "Selective streaming of video segments based on buffer data and download rate range" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,750, issued on May 6, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (New York).

"Selective streaming of video segments based on buffer data and download rate range" was invented by Boris Kapchits (Yokneam, Israel) and Ohad Shacham (Kfar Monash, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies for selectively streaming video based on mapping buffer data to download rates. The technologies can include sampling download rates of a video player prior to or during downloading of a first video segment to the video player. The technologies can include determining a range of download rates of the video player based at least on the sampled download rate...