US Patent Issued to Adeia Media Holdings on Feb. 17 for "Fragment server directed device fragment caching" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,600, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Adeia Media Holdings LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Fragment server directed device fragment caching" was invented by Charles Nooney (Piedmont, Calif.) and Kent Karlsson (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The media stream delivery system encodes and fragments media streams into numerous media stream fragments maintained on fragment servers. Devices obtain fragments to reconstruct media streams including live real-time media streams for playback on the devices. A device may perform caching of media stream fragments so that particular fragments need not be accessed again from a fragment s...