US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 20 for "Methods, systems, and media for streaming video content using adaptive buffers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,911, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and media for streaming video content using adaptive buffers" was invented by Matt Doucleff (San Francisco) and Anil Vijendran (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and media for streaming video content using adaptive buffers are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving, from a user device to a server, a request to stream a video content item; determining a predicted abandonment distribution that indicates a plurality of likelihoods of a user of the user device stopping presentation of...