US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on July 21 for "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for adaptive bitrate ladder construction based on dynamically adjustable neural networks" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,668, issued on July 21, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods, systems, and apparatuses for adaptive bitrate ladder construction based on dynamically adjustable neural networks" was invented by Dan Grois (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and Alexander Giladi (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for streaming content. The embodiments described herein may apply to ABR streaming and output an optimized ABR ladder enabling a playback device to maximize the perceived video quality of received content, provide substantially constant visual quality, and/or minimize reb...