US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on May 27 for "Methods and systems for predicting content consumption" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,892, issued on May 27, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for predicting content consumption" was invented by Robert Alan Bress (New Providence, N.J.), Zhao Xing (Philadelphia) and Christopher Paul Whitely (Summit, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for content optimization are described. A computing device may determine a predictability score that indicates a probability that a device will access a first content item. The computing device may send a second content item associated with the first content item. The second content item may be based on the predictabi...