US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications Management on Nov. 4 for "In-band trick mode control" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,198, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications Management LLC (Philadelphia).

"In-band trick mode control" was invented by John Raymond Mick Jr. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A server may receive metadata associated with specific content in a transport signal stream from a content information service. The metadata may identify a point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may instruct an encoder to insert a marker into the transport signal stream corresponding to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The marker may indicate control of a trick mode to be enforced by a de...