US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on July 29 for "Methods and systems for content management" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,861, issued on July 29, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for content management" was invented by Yushi Xu (Philadelphia), Jiuqing Deng (Philadelphia) and Boyuan Yuan (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for content management are described. If programming content is distributed to viewers, signals are transmitted with the programming content to indicate a segmentation in the programming content. If a user device sees the signal indicating the advertisement break, the use device may make a request to an advertisement server. The advertisement server may r...