ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,927, issued on July 28.
"Content adaptive video ladder optimization" was invented by Zhuqi Li (Culver City, Calif.), He Liu (Culver City, Calif.), Shenglan Huang (Culver City, Calif.), Himanshu Shrivastav (Culver City, Calif.), Yiting Liao (Culver City, Calif.), Qian Chen (Culver City, Calif.) and Mingkui Liu (Culver City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for video streaming. One of the methods includes obtaining a collection of one or more video files at a content delivery system; for each video file: determining a set of video ladde...