US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on June 16 for "Methods and systems for providing alternate content" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,266, issued on June 16, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for providing alternate content" was invented by Edward David Monnerat (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing alternate content are disclosed. An example method can comprise determining a failure condition of a content stream. A channel identifier can be determined for the content stream, and alternate content streams associated with the channel identifier can be determined. The alternate content streams can be accessible via a different protocol, frequency, or network path than the con...