US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on April 29 for "Failover with redundant multicasts for switched digital video" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,496, issued on April 29, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Failover with redundant multicasts for switched digital video" was invented by Weidong Mao (West Windsor, N.J.) and Phillip Gabler (Doylestown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for delivering content is provided. In one example, responsive to a request by a client device identifying a video program, the system is configured to determine different first and second network paths for delivery of the video program from a content source; deliver the video program via the first network path to the client device; and responsive to...