US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Dec. 2 for "Sample-parallel sparse cipher-block chaining (CBCS) encryption" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,605, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Sample-parallel sparse cipher-block chaining (CBCS) encryption" was invented by Alexander Giladi (Denver) and Andrew Morrow (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content provider in a content distribution system may be configured to reduce latency in a content distribution system by storing multiple frames from a sequence of frames in different buffers and encrypting, in parallel, the frames stored in the different buffers. For example, the content provider may encrypt each buffer via a different instruction pipeline of a processor."

The paten...