US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications Management on Nov. 11 for "Methods and systems for redirecting content players" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,759, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications Management LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for redirecting content players" was invented by Alan Ramaley (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for redirecting content players are described. A request for content may be received by a network device from a user device. A session ID may be generated to track both the current and subsequent request for the content. The network device may redirect the user device to an initial segment of an advertisement. For an initial request by the content player that requests a segment of the content no...