US Patent Issued to ADEIA GUIDES on June 9 for "Methods and systems to improve segment bitrate selection in ABR streaming" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,428, issued on June 9, was assigned to ADEIA GUIDES INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems to improve segment bitrate selection in ABR streaming" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems, e.g., implemented by a client device, are provided for requesting a segment of a media content item using adaptive bitrate (ABR) streaming so as to improve the latter. To do so, a client device determines a first segment bitrate based on an available bandwidth. The client device then determines that a second segment bitrate is available, the second segment bitrate being lower than the first...