US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Nov. 11 for "Methods and apparatuses for selecting content applications" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,777, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and apparatuses for selecting content applications" was invented by Yasser Syed (San Francisco), Stuart Kurkowski (Philadelphia), Ali C. Begen (Philadelphia), Alexander Giladi (Denver) and Dan Grois (Beer-Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, apparatuses for selecting content applications are described. A manifest file associated with a channel may include content item identifiers associated with content items and content application identifiers associated with content applications that can play the content items...