US Patent Issued to Comcast Cable Communications on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for managing access to content assets" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,668, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Systems and methods for managing access to content assets" was invented by Richard Garfinkel (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Delay in output of a requested content asset by a user device may be reduced by sending a portion of the content asset to the user device in a particular type of format, such as an unsecured format. The unsecured portion of the content asset may be sent to the user device while a license for the content asset is being processed. The size of the unsecured portion of the content asset may be determined based on a...