ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,310, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).
"Management of resources for content assets" was invented by Marc Butler (Denver) and Richard Fliam (Greenwood Village, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are methods and systems whereby a request for a task relating to a content asset can be received. Information related to the task can be transmitted. A plurality of bids can be received in response to the transmitted information. Each bid can originate from a corresponding device such as a video packager. Each bid can represent a network related cost associated with the correspondi...