US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on June 16 for "Method and system for efficient layout of stored video segments" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,964, issued on June 16, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Method and system for efficient layout of stored video segments" was invented by Christopher Lintz (Denver) and Alexander Giladi (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described herein for an efficient storage layout of recorded content associated with a particular user. Content segments, unique to the user and encoded/transcoded at different bit rates, may be stored/partitioned based on the likelihood of a particular bit rate version of content being requested by the user and a duration of playback for the content segmen...