US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Sept. 2 for "Seamless content encoding and transmission" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,846, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Seamless content encoding and transmission" was invented by Srinath V. Ramaswamy (East Windsor, N.J.), Weidong Mao (West Windsor, N.J.) and Jason Press (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for encoding media content based on an ending delay of first media content and a startup delay of second media content. Second media content may be configured for transmission after first media content in a media content stream. The first media content may be associated with an ending delay corresponding ...