US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Jan. 20 for "Method and apparatus for signaling independent processing of media segments on cloud using metadata and startcode" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,226, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for signaling independent processing of media segments on cloud using metadata and startcode" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for performing a step-based operation in a network based media processing (NBMP) workflow. The method includes obtaining a workflow including an input media stream having a plurality of segments, identifying boundaries between the plurality of segments in the input media stream based on one of a metadata based segment boundary signaling or a code...