Comcast Cable Communications Assigned Patent

Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA, has been assigned a patent (11683373) developed by Lintz, Christopher, and Luna, Justin, Denver, CO, for “systems, methods, and apparatuses for storage management.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A computing device may receive a request to store a content segment(s). The request may include an estimated storage size. The computing device may determine a plurality of storage devices based on an estimated capacity of each of the storage devices to store the content segment(s). The computing device may cause each of the storage devices to allocate storage for the content segment(s). The allocated storage may be tracked and/or retrieved based on location metadata indicative of the allocated storage that may be stored at a cache and/or metadata repository.”

The patent application was filed on 2021-02-22 (17/181625).