ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,783, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HURRA COMMUNICATIONS GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and system for receiving a data stream and optimizing the detection of a specific position within the data stream" was invented by Piotr Mikulski (Cracow, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method features receiving a data stream (DS) having video and audio data; detecting a specific position within the DS classified by a predefined criterion (PC) and received by user's clients matching the PC; connecting the receiver not matching the PC with a client-server system matching the PC; receiving the DS by the client-server system and forw...