US Patent Issued to ARRIS Enterprises on July 28 for "VOD product rendering controller" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,933, issued on July 28, was assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC (Horsham, Pa.).

"VOD product rendering controller" was invented by Matthew A. Milford (Waxhaw, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A product rendering controller (PRC) manages the overall process of creating video-on-demand (VOD) assets or products from source assets that are obtained from a wide variety of different content sources (e.g., web-based sources) and which are in a wide variety of different native media formats. The source assets are converted to video transport streams such as an MPEG transport stream and transcoded as necessary to create the VOD products. The...