ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,057, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Systems and methods for predictive content delivery" was invented by Stuart Kurkowski (Colorado Springs, Colo.) and Neill Kipp (Greenwood Village, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described herein to predict events within a content stream. Based on the predicted events, information may be embedded within the stream. A computing device that receives the content stream may detect the predicted event and may wait a randomly generated time before requesting information associated with the predicted event, such as requesti...