US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 14 for "Targeted content distribution over a network" (Pennsylvania Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,737, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Targeted content distribution over a network" was invented by Stephen Ziring (Lansdale, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device may be configured to provide authorization to a first content source to provide first content to a user device. The computing device may receive a request from the first content source to identify a location of second content to be presented to the user device and respond to the request by providing an address to the first content source. At the provided address, a request for the second content from the u...