US Patent Issued to NETFLIX on March 31 for "Extended metadata blocks in media transport frames" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,085, issued on March 31, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Extended metadata blocks in media transport frames" was invented by Weiguo Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Aki Schassberger (San Ramon, Calif.) and Yongjun Jeon (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments a computer-implemented method for transmitting frames of media content to a client device. The method includes generating a frame for a portion of media content, generating a header for the frame based on the portion of the media content, and generating one or more metadata blocks for the frame corresponding to a media encod...