US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on June 17 for "Content-aware predictive bitrate ladder" (New Jersey, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,488, issued on June 17, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Content-aware predictive bitrate ladder" was invented by Weidong Mao (West Windsor, N.J.), Alexander Giladi (Princeton, N.J.) and Alex Balk (Mountlake Terrace, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatuses may encode a media content item based on metadata from previous encoding. The encoding may also generate encoding metadata, which may comprise a qualitative or quantitative characterization of the encoded media content item. A prediction engine may, based on this metadata, determine new encoding settings for the same o...