ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,867, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Zoom Communications Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Storing encoded packets at a server" was invented by Yongxiang Dai (Hefei, China), Shaohua Li (HeFei, China) and Lin Sun (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer stores packets from a first device at a first buffer. The computer decodes the packets to obtain decoded packets at a decoder. The computer encodes encoding the decoded packets to obtain encoded packets at an encoder. The computer transmits the encoded packets from the encoder to a storage unit. The computer fetches the encoded packets from the storage unit using a secon...