US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 25 for "Deadline signaling for streaming of media data" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,137, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Deadline signaling for streaming of media data" was invented by Thomas Stockhammer (Bergen, Germany), Xipeng Zhu (San Diego) and Gordon Kent Walker (Poway, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client device includes a memory comprising a buffer for buffering data having real-time constraints and a hardware-based processor comprising digital logic circuitry. The processor is configured to execute a real-time application configured to determine times during which the data will be available for download, determine a time at which the data is needed to prevent a buffe...