ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,787, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications Management LLC (Philadelphia).
"Multi-component content asset transfer" was invented by Danny Benedict (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for multi-component asset transfer. A plurality of references can be generated from a manifest of a content asset. A monitoring agent can determine when a content item for the content asset is received and modify the state of the corresponding reference."
The patent was filed on Sept. 30, 2020, under Application No. 17/039,408.
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