ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,100, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods, systems, and apparatuses for improved content storage" was invented by Alexander Giladi (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present methods, systems, and apparatuses may provide for more efficient transmission and storage of initialization segments for individual content items that share a set of common parameters. Instead of generating initialization segments that are specific to each content item, a common initialization segment for the content items and/or an existing initialization segment for one of the content item...