US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on July 15 for "Performing trick plays of segmented video content" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,382, issued on July 15, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Performing trick plays of segmented video content" was invented by James Barkley (Downingtown, Pa.) and Fei Wan (Warrington, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for performing trick plays of segmented video content are provided. A point at which a trick play begins may be based on a playback time associated with a video segment that includes the video frame currently displayed when a request to start the trick play is received. A point at which to resume playback of the normal rate video content may...