US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Oct. 28 for "Methods, systems, and apparatuses to mitigate server-associated delays in content delivery" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,259, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods, systems, and apparatuses to mitigate server-associated delays in content delivery" was invented by Alexander Giladi (Centennial, Colo.), Alexander Balk (Centennial, Colo.), Ali C. Begen (Centennial, Colo.) and Johnathon Benton (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Client devices in a content delivery network may send requests for content to upstream devices along with one or more parameters that indicate, as an example, client-device-related conditions or constraints, such as available buffer space or buffer starvation time....