MUMBAI, India, April 10 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202421074526 A) filed by Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited, Maharashtra, on Oct. 2, 2024, for 'method and system for embedding custom metadata in ott streaming manifests.'

Inventor(s) include Rahul Banerjee; and Suneel Khare.

The application for the patent was published on April 10, under issue no. 15/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention provides a system (100) and method (200) for embedding custom metadata in Over-The-Top (OTT) streaming manifests to enhance the user experience. The system (100) includes an encoder and packager module (108) configured to generate Adaptive Bitrate (...