US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on June 10 for "Managing concurrent content playback" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,464, issued on June 10, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Managing concurrent content playback" was invented by Suk-Hyun Cho (Federal Way, Wash.), William Thing (Seattle) and Eugene Parker (Renton, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A content server may receive from a user device a request for a content asset and may send to the playback device a permit for accessing the content asset. The permit may be used by the content server in order to enforce a concurrency restriction, or a number of concurrent playbacks of one or more content assets desired or permitted by the playback device. In response to ...