US Patent Issued to CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING on June 24 for "Apparatus and methods for latency reduction in digital content switching operations" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,007, issued on June 24, was assigned to CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING LLC (St. Louis).

"Apparatus and methods for latency reduction in digital content switching operations" was invented by Basil Badawiyeh (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus and methods for reducing latency in content and content source switching in a digital content delivery network. In one embodiment, linear addressable secondary content is "switched into" primary content within a cloud-based model using one or more latency-reducing techniques so as to minimize the user's perception of delay in performing the switch. In one implementation, sec...