US Patent Issued to Beijing Bytedance Network Technology on April 7 for "Live-streaming starting method, device and program product" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,334, issued on April 7, was assigned to Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Live-streaming starting method, device and program product" was invented by Yongyi Yu (Beijing) and Le Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the disclosure provide a live-streaming starting method, apparatus, device, storage medium, program product and program. The server receives a live-streaming starting request initiated by a terminal for streaming media; determines a starting segment according to a predetermined delay threshold, the starting segment comprising a media presentation description MPD file, an initia...