US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 7 for "Cluster optimization for adaptive bitrate estimation" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,308, issued on April 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Cluster optimization for adaptive bitrate estimation" was invented by Krishnakanth Rapaka (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tarek Amara (Pleasanton, Calif.), Ryan Bickhart (San Francisco), John Bowers (Provo, Utah), Sunil Gopal Koteyar (Burlington, Canada), Richard Leider (San Francisco) and Hassan Heidari Namarvar (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and systems for adaptive optimization of clusters for bitrate prediction are disclosed. In some embodiments, such techniques may include extracting, in real-time, features from content segments...