US Patent Issued to Pluto on Aug. 25 for "Methods and systems for streaming video" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,159, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Pluto Inc. (West Hollywood, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for streaming video" was invented by Vibol C. Hou (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed configured to enable dynamic control of content streaming and/or to control content streaming so as to reduce peak system loads. A user electronic timetable is accessed from memory and is amazed to identify future unscheduled time periods. A first learning engine classifies timetable entries into subject types. A watchlist comprising a plurality of content items of respective time lengths is accessed. A s...