US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Dec. 16 for "Content recording and group encryption" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,097, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Content recording and group encryption" was invented by Kyong Park (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing group encryption are described. In certain methods, a content asset may be encrypted with an asset key. An account key may be determined. Using the account key, an encrypted content asset package may be generated. The asset key may make up at least a portion of the encrypted content asset package. The encrypted content asset package is decryptable with the account key. The encrypted content asset packag...