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Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC

Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC's patent strategy reveals a strong, albeit fluctuating, focus on "Pictorial / Video Communications," comprising 59.6% of its portfolio, despite a significant decline of 75.0% in 2026 so far. Surprisingly, while core communication categories like "Web & Cloud Service Protocols" and "Wireless Networks" have seen substantial drops in patenting activity in 2026 (100.0% and 0 patents since 2024, respectively), the company showed an emerging focus in 2025 with 100.0% year-over-year growth in "Operating Systems & Program Control," "Physical Transmission & Modulation," "Databases & Information Retrieval," "Business Methods & Fintech," and "System Reliability & Diagnostics," indicating a broader interest beyond its traditional media and network infrastructure.

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Product-level themes inferred from filings since 2023, with category chips showing where each theme appears. Select a theme to filter the patents below.

47 US filings (since 2023) · 12 categories · 11 themes

Adaptive Media Delivery & Caching

Methods and systems for efficiently distributing and delivering media content, including techniques for multi-source streaming, content caching, and optimizing delivery based on network conditions or device capabilities.

Streaming & Real-Time Media
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23since 2023
0.0%YoY
Secure Data Sharing & Rights Management

Mechanisms to facilitate the secure exchange of data between different entities or systems while enforcing usage policies, managing digital content rights, and ensuring data consistency during replication or transfer.

Computer Security
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14since 2023
-20.0%YoY
Video Quality & Encoding Optimizationfiltered

Methods and apparatus for improving the visual fidelity, resolution, or compression efficiency of video signals, often through advanced processing, up-scaling, or neural network-based filters.

Pictorial / Video Communications
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8since 2023
-50.0%YoY
Data Integration & Content Delivery Platforms

Platforms and methods for aggregating data from diverse sources, generating dynamic content, and delivering it efficiently to users, often involving social media, programmatic advertising, or interactive experiences within cloud environments.

Web & Cloud Service Protocols
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8since 2023
0.0%YoY
Access Control & Identity Management

Systems and methods for authenticating users, devices, or applications, authorizing their access to resources based on policies, and managing digital identities across various platforms.

Computer SecurityNetwork Security & Access Control
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7since 2023
0.0%YoY
Network Operations, Reliability & Traffic

Techniques and systems designed to monitor network health, diagnose issues, optimize traffic flow, and ensure continuous operation and reduced downtime in complex network environments, including cloud and storage area networks.

Web & Cloud Service Protocols
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3since 2023
new
System Resource & Power Optimization

Methods and systems for efficiently allocating computing resources, balancing workloads, and managing power states to improve performance, reduce energy consumption, or enhance reliability in computing platforms.

Operating Systems & Program Control
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3since 2023
0.0%YoY
Predictive System Health

Techniques for monitoring system components and behaviors to anticipate failures, performance degradation, or anomalies, often leveraging machine learning for pattern recognition and forecasting.

System Reliability & Diagnostics
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3since 2023
0.0%YoY
Multimodal Data Fusion

Techniques for combining and analyzing information from multiple distinct data modalities (e.g., text, image, video, audio, sensor data) to derive richer insights or improve system performance and decision-making.

Databases & Information Retrieval
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2since 2023
new
Advanced RF & Beam Management

Techniques and hardware architectures for optimizing the radio frequency (RF) front-end, antenna systems, and beamforming strategies in wireless networks to improve signal quality, capacity, and interference mitigation.

Wireless Networks
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2since 2023
n/a
Interactive & Generative Display Systems

Technologies that create dynamic and interactive visual content for displays, including virtual/wearable systems, by generating overlays, replacing input streams, or merging real-time user actions with digital environments.

Pictorial / Video Communications
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1since 2023
n/a

Patents

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Video Quality & Encoding Optimization
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US 12464198 B2GRANTED
H04N21/637

In-band trick mode control

Filed:2023-11-17Pub:2025-11-04
Applicant:Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC

A server may receive metadata associated with specific content in a transport signal stream from a content information service. The metadata may identify a point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may instruct an encoder to insert a marker into the transport signal stream corresponding to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The marker may indicate control of a trick mode to be enforced by a delivery platform subsequent to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may record the marker in a data store associated with the server.

US 20250139659 A1APPLICATION
G06Q30/0241

SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ADVERTISING CONTINUITY

Filed:2024-10-08Pub:2025-05-01
Applicant:Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC

Methods and systems are described for generating content identification files, such as manifest files, for ensuring content and advertising continuity when changes occur during playback. A user device can request content at a particular bitrate, and a first manifest file comprising references to the content and selected associated content such as advertisements can be created in response to the request. While one of the advertisements is being displayed, the user device can request a change, such as for a different bitrate. A computing device, such as a manifest server can access the first manifest file to determine the content and the associated content, such the advertisements, that were intended for the user. The manifest server can then create a second manifest file in response to the request, where second manifest file can be created with the associated content, for example, the advertisements in the first manifest file.

US 12155882 B2GRANTED
H04N21/2662

Systems and methods for advertising continuity

Filed:2020-03-03Pub:2024-11-26
Applicant:Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC

Methods and systems are described for generating content identification files, such as manifest files, for ensuring content and advertising continuity when changes occur during playback. A user device can request content at a particular bitrate, and a first manifest file comprising references to the content and selected associated content such as advertisements can be created in response to the request. While one of the advertisements is being displayed, the user device can request a change, such as for a different bitrate. A computing device, such as a manifest server can access the first manifest file to determine the content and the associated content, such as the advertisements, that were intended for the user. The manifest server can then create a second manifest file in response to the request, where the second manifest file can be created with the associated content, for example, the advertisements in the first manifest file.

US 20240147019 A1APPLICATION
H04N21/6379

In-Band Trick Mode Control

Filed:2023-11-17Pub:2024-05-02
Applicant:Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC

A server may receive metadata associated with specific content in a transport signal stream from a content information service. The metadata may identify a point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may instruct an encoder to insert a marker into the transport signal stream corresponding to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The marker may indicate control of a trick mode to be enforced by a delivery platform subsequent to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may record the marker in a data store associated with the server.

US 11902703 B2GRANTED
H04N5/783

Video preview during trick play

Filed:2019-10-31Pub:2024-02-13
Applicant:COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGEMENT, LLC

Methods and systems are described for displaying a thumbnail preview of video content. In an aspect, one or more mosaic images made up of thumbnails corresponding to frames of the video content at multiple time points can be loaded into the system or created by the methods described. In an aspect, the selected thumbnail, as well as any other thumbnails, can be selected in response to receiving a command (e.g., trick play request) from the viewer. The command can dictate the direction from the selected thumbnail that the next thumbnails will be selected. The command can also dictate the frequency with which thumbnails will be selected from the mosaic image. In an aspect, frames comprised of thumbnails can be encoded to create the video content.

US 11863838 B2GRANTED
H04N21/637

In-band trick mode control

Filed:2022-09-01Pub:2024-01-02
Applicant:Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC

A server may receive metadata associated with specific content in a transport signal stream from a content information service. The metadata may identify a point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may instruct an encoder to insert a marker into the transport signal stream corresponding to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The marker may indicate control of a trick mode to be enforced by a delivery platform subsequent to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may record the marker in a data store associated with the server.

US 11765445 B2GRANTED
H04N21/8545

Validation of content

Filed:2022-01-27Pub:2023-09-19
Applicant:Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC

A collection of well-formed, but possibly semantically invalid, binary encoded multimedia data components or packages as well as the binary encoded announcement, signaling, and interchange protocols used in their transmission are converted into one or more well-formed extensible markup language (XML) files. Such XML files may then be validated according to one or more pre-defined XML schemas, or similar schema languages, in order to verify that the data and protocol structures and substructures adhere to prior defined semantic constraints.

US 20230100887 A1APPLICATION
H04N21/6379

In-Band Trick Mode Control

Filed:2022-09-01Pub:2023-03-30
Applicant:Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC

A server may receive metadata associated with specific content in a transport signal stream from a content information service. The metadata may identify a point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may instruct an encoder to insert a marker into the transport signal stream corresponding to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The marker may indicate control of a trick mode to be enforced by a delivery platform subsequent to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may record the marker in a data store associated with the server.

US 11463783 B2GRANTED
H04N21/637

In-band trick mode control

Filed:2020-06-29Pub:2022-10-04
Applicant:Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC

A server may receive metadata associated with specific content in a transport signal stream from a content information service. The metadata may identify a point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may instruct an encoder to insert a marker into the transport signal stream corresponding to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The marker may indicate control of a trick mode to be enforced by a delivery platform subsequent to the point in time of the transport signal stream. The server may record the marker in a data store associated with the server.

US 20220159351 A1APPLICATION
H04N21/8545

Validation of Content

Filed:2022-01-27Pub:2022-05-19
Applicant:Comcast Cable Communications Management, LLC

A collection of well-formed, but possibly semantically invalid, binary encoded multimedia data components or packages as well as the binary encoded announcement, signaling, and interchange protocols used in their transmission are converted into one or more well-formed extensible markup language (XML) files. Such XML files may then be validated according to one or more pre-defined XML schemas, or similar schema languages, in order to verify that the data and protocol structures and substructures adhere to prior defined semantic constraints.

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