US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Feb. 24 for "Optimizing content item compression for adaptive bitrate streaming by internet protocol television (IPTV) providers" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,245, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optimizing content item compression for adaptive bitrate streaming by internet protocol television (IPTV) providers" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for generating an adaptive bitrate ladder for a content item based on the actual quality of the content item. A broadcaster determines a quality score of a content item and multiplexes a message indicating the quality score with data packets of the content item to a headend. The headend uses th...