US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Sept. 16 for "Methods and systems for providing variable bitrate content" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,661, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for providing variable bitrate content" was invented by Adam Eng (Golden, Colo.) and David Eng (Louisville, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods and systems for providing variable bitrate content (e.g., video content, audio content, multimedia content, etc.). The content may comprise a plurality of portions (e.g., frames, segments, fragments, etc.). Each portion of the content may be tagged and/or associated with a content element. A content element may be associated with and/or indicate one or more of ...