ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,521, issued on July 8, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications Management LLC (Philadelphia).
"Methods and systems for processing content rights" was invented by Alfred J. Stappenbeck (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for processing content access rights and/or entitlement rights are disclosed. A method, in one aspect, provides for receiving a selection of a content option, requesting access information associated with the selected content option, receiving access information comprising location information relating to a compatible format, requesting access rights from a first service associated with the...