US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 14 for "Methods and systems for content stream coding" (New York, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,512, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for content stream coding" was invented by Zhen Zhao (Berwyn, Pa.) and Sadasivan Ponnuswamy (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for encoding content using a first encoding algorithm to produce first encoded content. Content can also be encoded using a second encoding algorithm to produce second encoded content, where the second encoded content can comprise data that can be used to reconstruct the first encoded content. At any time relative to the encoding, a request for the content can be...