US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Nov. 3 for "Methods and systems for providing supplemental data" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,156, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for providing supplemental data" was invented by Christopher Lintz (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing supplemental data are disclosed. An exemplary method can comprise determining content currently being consumed by a user, determining one or more user preferences for display of supplemental data, retrieving supplemental data according to the one or more user preferences, and providing the supplemental data to the user concurrently with the content currently being consumed."

The patent was...