US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Sept. 2 for "Policy based transcoding" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,905, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Policy based transcoding" was invented by Weidong Mao (West Windsor, N.J.) and Jason Press (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for providing video content in response to requests in a content delivery system with more speed and efficiency. In some aspects, network monitoring devices may gather content specific and network performance metrics, from user devices and content delivery components, to provide input to a computing device for deciding whether to store or delete different versions of the same or...