US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on May 26 for "Authorization of access rights licenses" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,404, issued on May 26, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Authorization of access rights licenses" was invented by Walter Sturm (Far Hills, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for preauthorizing a batch of access rights licenses, e.g., Digital Rights Management (DRM) licenses, and storing them at a location. The preauthorization may be based on predicting a batch of content items to be viewed. The location may be a content server or a user device. After receiving a request from the user device to play back a content item of the batch of predicted content it...