ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,651, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).
"Techniques for transmitting media using a data transport format" 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 ...