US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on April 7 for "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for scalable content data updating" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,351, issued on April 7, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods, systems, and apparatuses for scalable content data updating" was invented by Alexander Giladi (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for updating content data are described herein. A single manifest file may be maintained per content item and provided to client devices with an update file. The manifest file each client device receives may not initially facilitate output of content segments. Instead, the manifest file may be a partial manifest file that initializes playback and/or facilitates output of a...