US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on May 19 for "Optimizing content item compression for adaptive bitrate streaming by over-the-top (OTT) providers" (California, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,533, issued on May 19, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Optimizing content item compression for adaptive bitrate streaming by over-the-top (OTT) 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 an OTT provider. The OTT provider uses the qualit...