US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 14 for "Methods and systems for content management" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,667, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for content management" was invented by Stuart Kurkowski (Denver) and Gregg Brown (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for content management are described. If programming content is distributed to viewers, markers are transmitted with the programming content. If a user device receives the marker, the user device may send an output indication to a rights management device. The rights management device may determine whether or not the user device outputting the content violates or adheres to a content pol...