US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Jan. 28 for "Manipulation and recording of content transmissions" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,620, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Manipulation and recording of content transmissions" was invented by Ross Gilson (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and systems for providing content. An example method can comprise receiving a first multicast content transmission at a first bit rate and recording at least a portion of a content item from the first multicast content transmission. An example method can comprise receiving a first request for the content item and requesting at least one differential content transmission configured to be combined with...