US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Nov. 4 for "Content segment detection and replacement" (Colorado, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,033, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Content segment detection and replacement" was invented by David A. O'Hare (Glendale, Colo.), Weidong Mao (West Windsor, N.J.), Elad Nafshi (Bryn Mawr, Pa.), Mark Vickers (Marina del Rey, Calif.), Gregory Allen Broome (Broomfield, Colo.) and Sree Kotay (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for providing content are disclosed. One method can comprise receiving a request for content comprising at least a first segment. The method can also comprise determining an expiration condition of the first segment, and replacing the ...