US Patent Issued to Tencent America on June 30 for "Bidirectional presentation data stream" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,730, issued on June 30, was assigned to Tencent America LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Bidirectional presentation data stream" was invented by Arianne Hinds (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Stephan Wenger (Hillsborough, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a method of media streaming in a client device, a media stream carrying media content is received. The media content from the media stream is presented. A request that the client device provide media asset information is received from a server device and according to a bidirectional protocol for immersive media distribution. The media asset information is sent to the server device by the cli...