US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on June 17 for "Optimizing resources in data transmission" (Pennsylvania, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,992, issued on June 17, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Optimizing resources in data transmission" was invented by Ross Gilson (Philadelphia), Mark Francisco (Clarksburg, N.J.) and David Urban (Downingtown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing data are disclosed. An optimal set of subcarriers can be determined for a data transmission when a plurality of devices have requested the data transmission. The optimal set of subcarriers can be determined based on similarities or differences between parameters assigned to subcarriers in capability profiles. Capacity loss and ot...