US Patent Issued to Charter Communications Operating on Feb. 3 for "Common thumbnails per content source for use across unique streaming sessions" (Colorado, South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,944, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Charter Communications Operating LLC (St. Louis).

"Common thumbnails per content source for use across unique streaming sessions" was invented by Moin Pansare (Aurora, Colo.), Sachin Reddy Kota (Indian Land, S.C.), Vipul Patel (Parker, Colo.) and Fabio Hux (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and systems for providing common thumbnails per content source for use across multiple streaming sessions. A method for common thumbnails usage includes pre-generating, by a linear packager, thumbnails for a live stream from a content source, wherein each thumbnail has a thumbnail ...