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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Feb. 02, 2024
Applicant:
Comcast Cable Communications, Llc, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Inventor:
Alexander Giladi, Centennial, CO (US);
Assignee:
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/231 (2011.01); H04N 21/232 (2011.01); H04N 21/239 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/23106 (2013.01); H04N 21/232 (2013.01); H04N 21/2393 (2013.01);
Abstract
The present methods, systems, and apparatuses may provide for more efficient transmission and storage of initialization segments for individual content items that share a set of common parameters. Instead of generating initialization segments that are specific to each content item, a common initialization segment for the content items and/or an existing initialization segment for one of the content items may be used for initializing playback of one or more content segments for any of the content items sharing the set of common parameters.