US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Jan. 20 for "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for buffer management" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,043, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems, methods, and apparatuses for buffer management" was invented by Jose Romsil Lacang Cosmo (Seattle) and Robert Smith (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for content deliver, buffer management and synchronization are described herein. Content being played back on a playback platform is analyzed and based on the analysis, asynchronous playback of the content may be determined. A source buffer flush may be performed to correct the asynchronous playback. After the source buffer flush is performed, conten...