US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Sept. 29 for "Auxiliary MPDs for MPEG DASH to support preroll and midrolls and their playback using W3C MSE/EME" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,414, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Auxiliary MPDs for MPEG DASH to support preroll and midrolls and their playback using W3C MSE/EME" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus may be provided for signaling auxiliary media including pre-roll media content and mid-roll media content in a main media stream including receiving main media presentation descriptions (MPD) comprising one or more main media segments and at least one auxiliary descriptor referencing one or more auxiliary MPDs. The auxiliary MPD may include one or more auxilia...