US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Sept. 8 for "Content playlist integrity" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,937, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Content playlist integrity" was invented by John R. Mick Jr. (Denver), Sean E. Bowman (Highlands Ranch, Colo.), Cory Zachman (Denver), Christopher D. Brown (Denver) and Mark Niebur (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for protecting the integrity of a playlist, and/or for determining whether a playlist has been altered. The playlist may comprise references to segments of multiple content types. The references may be obfuscated, and/or confirmation data may be used to detect playlist alteration."...