US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on July 14 for "Methods, systems, and apparatuses for improved transmission of content" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,181, issued on July 14, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods, systems, and apparatuses for improved transmission of content" was invented by Neill Kipp (Philadelphia) and Bryan Taft (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device (e.g., an encoder, a content packager, and/or content server) may receive content (e.g., a live or time-shifted content transmission, video-on-demand content transmission, video, audio, games, data, etc.). The computing device may separate the received content into a plurality of content segments. The computing device may insert metadata into each of the c...