US Patent Issued to Activision Publishing on Oct. 27 for "Methods and systems for real-time adaptive streaming of gaming content in an online video game" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,622, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Activision Publishing Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for real-time adaptive streaming of gaming content in an online video game" was invented by Chris Fowler (Gold Coast, Australia) and Andrew Glover (Sydney).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Instead of simply downloading missing or required gaming content at a preset speed no matter the circumstance, a responsive or adaptive content streaming system and method first sets a content streaming speed and, if the download reaches that streaming speed, the speed is gradually increased while periodically checking for issues or problems...