US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on June 2 for "Congestion control for low-latency interactive video streaming" (California, Washington, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,368, issued on June 2, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Congestion control for low-latency interactive video streaming" was invented by Teng Wei (Mountain View, Calif.), Connor Smith (Seattle), David Chu (Seattle), Devdeep Ray (Pittsburgh), Bernhard Reinert (Seattle) and Zengbin Zhang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server transmits an encoded game frame over a network to a respective client system as a set of packets. In response to transmitting the set of packets, the server determines a bandwidth estimate based on the size of the encoded game frame and the timing data associated with the transmitted se...