US Patent Issued to Adeia Media Holdings on March 17 for "Local cache maintenance for media content" (Pennsylvania, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,995, issued on March 17, was assigned to Adeia Media Holdings LLC (San Jose, Calif.).

"Local cache maintenance for media content" was invented by Ross Gilson (Philadelphia) and Derik Yarnell (Montrose, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media device and methods that identify playback states reachable from a current content playback state and identify a reachable state that is likely to occur, are disclosed. A memory associated with the media device may receive frames that enable a smooth transition between the playback state and the reachable state. The media device may receive frames that correspond to points in the content tha...