US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on March 17 for "Methods and systems for content storage" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,140, issued on March 17, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for content storage" was invented by Alexander Giladi (Centennial, Colo.) and Robert Dandrea (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatuses, and systems are described for reducing the amount of storage space required to store content item recordings. A content item may include one or more portions. A playback probability may be determined based on a duration of time a content item is stored in a storage location. One or more of the portions of the content item may be removed based on the playback pro...