US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Jan. 27 for "Segment ladder transitioning in adaptive streaming" (Colorado Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,866, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Segment ladder transitioning in adaptive streaming" was invented by Alexander Giladi (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for delivering and playing streaming content. A plurality of adaptations sets may be generated for a content asset. The plurality of adaptation sets may have segments encoded according to different segment durations. A media device may transition between adaptation sets to perform a content transition operation."

The patent was filed on June 27, 2024, under Application No. 18/756,910.

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