ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,305, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Collaborative media quality determination" was invented by Weidong Mao (West Windsor, N.J.) and Jason Press (Bryn Mawr, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A playback device may determine a quality measurement associated with one or more versions of a content fragment. The quality measurements may be based on one or more encoding characteristics associated with the plurality of versions of the content fragments. The quality measurements may be received by a content delivery system from the one or more devices and may be used by the content delivery...