US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Sept. 8 for "Reducing utilization of a hardware resource by a media stream by downgrading from a high-complexity codec to a low-complexity codec to process the media stream" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,596, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Reducing utilization of a hardware resource by a media stream by downgrading from a high-complexity codec to a low-complexity codec to process the media stream" was invented by Madhusudan Kinthada Venkata (South San Diego, Calif.), Siddharth Ray (Cupertino, Calif.) and Shivank Nayak (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for conserving resources on constrained devices may include (i) identifying a media stream on a resource-constrained device, (ii) detecting that a utilization, at least in part by the...