US Patent Issued to Avago Technologies International Sales on March 24 for "Rebuffering reduction in adaptive bit-rate video streaming" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,706, issued on March 24, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Rebuffering reduction in adaptive bit-rate video streaming" was invented by Minhua Zhou (San Diego) and Xuemin Chen (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes setting, by a controller, a first bit-rate level for a next video segment, and comparing a fill level of a playback buffer to a first threshold. If the fill level of the playback buffer satisfies the first threshold, the first bit-rate level for the next video segment is replaced by setting a second bit-rate level for the next video. A first re...