US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Dec. 2 for "Methods and systems for content management" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,660, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for content management" was invented by Gregg Brown (Philadelphia) and Stuart Kurkowski (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for content management are described. If programming content is distributed to viewers, signals such as markers are transmitted with the programming content. If a user device receives the marker, the use device may make a request to a rights management device. The rights management device may receive the request and determine an identifier associated with the request and an ide...