US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on May 27 for "Adaptive rights management system" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,414, issued on May 27, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Adaptive rights management system" was invented by Kyong Park (Haverford, Pa.) and Michael Chen (Wallingford, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing policy-based copyright enforcement of media content items streamed to client devices are described. Various aspects discussed herein relate to managing content access rights in an adaptive bitrate environment (e.g., where an asset may be encoded and delivered at multiple different bitrates). The system discussed herein permits diffe...