ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,663, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Remote user interface" was invented by Mark Francisco (Clarksburg, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interactive user interface, such as a remote terminal user interface, is compressed prior to transmission to a video client. The compression may be performed independently of any other video that may be simultaneously transmitted to the video client. At the client side, two compressed video streams (remote user interface and video content) may be decompressed independently of each other. In some cases, technology already existing in some cli...