ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,915, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Real-time or near real-time streaming" was invented by Roger Pantos (Scotts Valley, Calif.), William B. May Jr. (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David Biderman (San Jose, Calif.) and Alan Tseng (Baltimore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses provide real-time or near real-time streaming of content, specified in one or more playlists, using transfer protocols such as an HTTP compliant protocol. In one embodiment, a method can adaptively determine a minimum overlap for an overlap in time between two streams being received concurrently in order to determine w...