US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on July 28 for "Methods and systems for content management" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,954, issued on July 28, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for content management" was invented by Stuart Bercun (Medford, N.J.) and Fei Wan (Warrington, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for content management are described. If programming content is distributed to viewers, inaudible audio signals associated with the content may be output along with the content. If a user device detects the one or more inaudible signals, the user device may automatically navigate to a website, launch one or more applications, or send requests for services."

The patent was filed...