ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,077, issued on March 31, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Media stream switching method and apparatus" was invented by Qi Pan (Beijing), Zhenglei Huang (Shenzhen, China), Hui Ni (Beijing) and Yaxin Wang (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An access network device receives characteristic information of a first live media stream included in a switching request from a terminal device. The access network device or a user plane network element determines, based on the characteristic information, the first live media stream corresponding to the characteristic information of the first live media...