US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Jan. 13 for "Methods and systems for providing video at multiple bit rates" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,462, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for providing video at multiple bit rates" was invented by Walter Sturm (Far Hills, N.J.) and Philip John Stroffolino (Media, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device may be configured to make a better choice between switching to a different content bit rate or switching to a different content server when responding to interruptions during content output, based on an awareness of a cause of the interruptions. Based on conditions associated with content delivery or information concerning playback quality at one or more...