US Patent Issued to DIVX on Oct. 6 for "Systems and methods for encoding and streaming video encoded using a plurality of maximum bitrate levels" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,877, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to DIVX LLC (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for encoding and streaming video encoded using a plurality of maximum bitrate levels" was invented by Kourosh Soroushian (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for streaming and playing back video having a variety of resolutions, frame rates, and/or sample aspect ratios, where the video streams are encoded at one of a number of maximum bit rate levels, in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. One embodiment includes a processor, and storage containing data relating combinations of resolution and frame rates to...