US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 31 for "Selective just-in-time transcoding" (Washington, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,055, issued on March 31, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Selective just-in-time transcoding" was invented by Nicholas Tegan Heckman (Kirkland, Wash.), Nitin Suri (Redmond, Wash.), Ivan Romashka (Seattle) and Steven Craig Peterson (Bloomington, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A media server uses selective just-in-time ("JIT") transcoding of media such as video. For example, the media server determines a measure of complexity of a given segment of a given media sequence. The given segment has been encoded at a base bit rate. The media server evaluates a complexity condition for the given segm...