US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on July 8 for "Methods and systems for managing content quality in a storage medium" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,034, issued on July 8, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for managing content quality in a storage medium" was invented by Eric Stobbart (Snoqualmie, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The quality of stored content may be managed prior to output. A computing device may request and receive content segments for output via the computing device. The content segments may comprise content encoded at a first bit rate selected by the computing device. The first content segments may be stored in a memory of the computing device, such as a buffer, until output at their respective presentatio...