US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on July 7 for "Network time-shift buffering, recording conversion, and content management" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,035, issued on July 7, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Network time-shift buffering, recording conversion, and content management" was invented by Jeffrey Ronald Wannamaker (London, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing content are disclosed. An example method can comprise monitoring a number of users accessing content, and recording a first segment of the content if the number of users accessing the content reaches a threshold value. A second segment of the content can be recorded based on a request to record the second segment of the content, and at least a portion o...