ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,901, issued on May 13, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Adaptive content selection" was invented by Ross Gilson (Philadelphia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided for enhancing the quality of content. A determination may be made that a portion of the content received using a base feed or bitrate completed early. In response to that determination, an attempt may be made to download that portion of the content using a differential bitrate or feed corresponding to a higher quality. Another determination may be made whether the differential...