US Patent Issued to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on March 17 for "Method and apparatus for optimizing video playback start, device and storage medium" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,159, issued on March 17, was assigned to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for optimizing video playback start, device and storage medium" was invented by Yuanfei Gao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for optimizing a video playback start, a device and a storage medium are provided. An implementation of the method may include: acquiring feature data, the acquired feature data affecting the video playback start speed when a video starts to play; inputting the acquired feature data into a pre-trained gradient boosting decision tree (GBDT) regression model...