US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Sept. 8 for "Methods to improve buffering and pre-buffering of short form videos" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,671, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods to improve buffering and pre-buffering of short form videos" was invented by Tao Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Ning Xu (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing segment buffering in a short-form video application are described. An example method includes identifying a set of recommended content items comprising a first set of segments (which may be "required") and second set of segments (which may be "optional"). The method includes determining a subset of the optional segments by, for each segment: determining ...