ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,879, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems and methods for generating differential header data" was invented by Alexander Giladi (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for generating differential header data are disclosed. First header data associated with a first fragment of a content item may be determined. Second header data associated with a second fragment of the content item may be determined. The first fragment of the content item may precede the second fragment of the content item. Based on comparing the first header data to the second header data, at ...