US Patent Issued to Beijing Zitiao Network Technology on Feb. 24 for "Video preloading method and apparatus, device and medium" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,261, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Video preloading method and apparatus, device and medium" was invented by Shenglan Huang (Culver City, Calif.), Haiqing Tao (Beijing), Hui Wang (Beijing), Chao Ma (Beijing), Bing Yan (Beijing) and Xiaocheng Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a video preloading method and apparatus, a device, and a medium. The method includes: in response to determining that a length of a buffered video reaches a first numerical value, creating and executing a preloading task, where the buffered video is a current video that is buffered ...