US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications, NBCUniversal Media on Feb. 24 for "Metadata manipulation" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,263, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia) and NBCUniversal Media LLC (New York).

"Metadata manipulation" was invented by Joseph Franz (Mountain View, Calif.) and Dhurv Garg (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data stream, such as a video stream, may comprise one or more event trigger messages indicating an upcoming event in the stream. The time (e.g., pre-roll time) between the event trigger message and its corresponding event may be modified, based on rules, to provide a network operator, service provider or downstream recipient more (or less) time to prepare for the event. T...