ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,878, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to ORANGE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France).

"Method and network equipment for local encoding of digital terrestrial television content into segments of adaptive content over http" was invented by Herve Marchand (Chatillon Cedex, France) and Olivier Gaste (Chatillon Cedex, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing access by a managing entity to content available on at least a first server providing the content in the form of data segments over a data telecommunication network and a second server providing a streaming service separate from the data telecommunication network. The method ...