US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Dec. 16 for "Custom content insertion for user groups" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,946, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Custom content insertion for user groups" was invented by Johannes Wiklund (McLean, Va.) and Corey Farrell (Lansdowne, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing content to communication session participants are disclosed. In exemplary methods, at least one source can be monitored. Content relevant to a communication session having one or more participants can be identified from the at least one source. Additionally, the content can be provided as a part of the communication session in a format compatible with the commu...