US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Nov. 3 for "Content segment variant obfuscation" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,614, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Content segment variant obfuscation" was invented by Alexander Giladi (Denver) and Yasser Syed (La Crescenta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are systems and methods for obfuscating variants of content segments. A manifest file configured to facilitate access to content may be provided. The manifest file may be based on an identifying sequence for a plurality of content segments of the content. The identifying sequence may indicate, for at least one content segment of the plurality of content segments, at least one variant o...