US Patent Issued to Combined Conditional Access Development And Support on Jan. 27 for "Initialization encryption for streaming content" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,801, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Combined Conditional Access Development And Support LLC (Philadelphia).

"Initialization encryption for streaming content" was invented by Madhu Penugonda (San Diego) and Lawrence Tang (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are disclosed for creating a virtual encryption session prior to video streaming content being requested to reduce or eliminate delay in initialization of the encryption session and content delivery to the customer. A virtual session has control word(s) (CW) and virtual entitlement control message(s) (ECM) that are devoid of content specific information. One or mor...