US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on March 18 for "Content schedule detection and adjustment" (District Of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,130, issued on March 18, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Content schedule detection and adjustment" was invented by Brian Curtis (Washington), Erik Schwartz (Kensington, Md.), Stefan Deichmann (Alexandria, Va.) and Jan Neumann (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations described herein are directed to determining variations or changes to a predetermined programming schedule. In accordance with one method, a predicted end time of video content may be determined to be later than a scheduled end time of the video content. Also, it may be determined that video content schedul...