US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Aug. 26 for "Program segmentation of linear transmission" (Maryland, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,764, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Program segmentation of linear transmission" was invented by Evelyne Tzoukermann (Silver Spring, Md.), Hongzhong Zhou (Silver Spring, Md.), Oliver Jojic (Annandale, Va.), Bageshree Shevade (Springfield, Va.) and Ryan M. Farrell (College Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Content streams may be segmented to provide automatic extraction and storage of content items without intervening commercials or other unrelated content. These content items may then be stored in a database and made accessible to subscribers through, for example, an on-dem...