ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,860, issued on June 30, was assigned to Beijing Bytedance Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Preloading method, electronic device and medium" was invented by Wei He (Beijing), Aoyang Zhang (Beijing), Zhendong Zhong (Beijing) and Qian Ma (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preloading method, an electronic device and a medium are provided. The method includes: determining a stuttering coefficient based on historical stuttering information of an application; determining a target preloading parameter based on a comparison result between the stuttering coefficient and a set threshold value; and preloading data in the applicatio...