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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 05, 2024
Comcast Cable Communications, Llc, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Yasser Syed, San Francisco, CA (US);
Stuart Kurkowski, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Ali C. Begen, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Alexander Giladi, Denver, CO (US);
Dan Grois, Beer-Sheva, IL;
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, apparatuses for selecting content applications are described. A manifest file associated with a channel may include content item identifiers associated with content items and content application identifiers associated with content applications that can play the content items. A computing device such as a set-top box may determine one or more content applications to play one or more content items based on the content item identifiers and the content application identifiers in the manifest file.