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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 27, 2015
Applicant:

Charter Communications Operating, Llc, St. Louis, MO (US);

Inventors:

James Herbert Alexander, Denver, CO (US);

Timothy Paul Germain, Morrison, CO (US);

Michael P Malecek, Sunset Hills, MO (US);

Brian Clements, Castle Rock, CO (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2665 (2011.01); H04N 21/8355 (2011.01); H04N 21/4627 (2011.01); H04N 21/254 (2011.01); H04N 21/2543 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2665 (2013.01); H04N 21/2541 (2013.01); H04N 21/25435 (2013.01); H04N 21/4627 (2013.01); H04N 21/8355 (2013.01);
Abstract

The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software related product (e.g., a computer readable memory or storage device) for optimization of authorization codes (or identifications, IDs) for delivery of multimedia content such as video channels using unique grouping of sources (to be delivered to users) into content packages assigned new authorization codes. Then each original content package may be represented by a combination of uniquely grouped packages assigned with a plurality of corresponding new codes.


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