US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications Management on June 3 for "Methods and systems for queuing and prioritizing media events" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,774, issued on June 3, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications Management LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for queuing and prioritizing media events" was invented by Paul Meijer (Seattle) and Mark Hellkamp (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for queuing events are described. In one aspect, a method is disclosed that receives or creates an event and inserts the event into a queue. The method determines at least one property of the event and associates a priority with the event based on the property. The method then processes the event in accordance with its priority."

The patent was filed on...