US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I, AT&T Mobility II on Sept. 2 for "Apparatus and method for media streaming" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,904, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta) and AT&T Mobility II LLC (Atlanta).

"Apparatus and method for media streaming" was invented by Venson Shaw (Kirkland, Wash.) and Jun Shen (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, dividing a media content item into a plurality of media content segments, at each media content segment of the plurality of media content segments, applying motion estimation between at least two video frames of the media content segment to determine a content weight for the media con...