US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on April 29 for "Crowd-sourced program boundaries" (New Jersey, District Of Columbia, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,505, issued on April 29, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Crowd-sourced program boundaries" was invented by David S. Wahl (Mullica Hill, N.J.), Ehsan Younessian (Washington) and Jan Neumann (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for determining boundaries within a content asset. A server may collect user interaction data for one or more content assets. Using the user interaction data, the server may determine commercial breaks or scene changes for the content asset. The server may apply best fit curves to the user interaction data, and determine c...