CABLE TELEVISION LABORATORIES, INC. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160142144 | MULTI-DOMAIN SCHEDULING FOR SUBORDINATE NETWORKING - Multi-domain scheduling for subordinate networking is contemplated. The scheduling may include controlling a terminal to facilitate interfacing an Internet Protocol (IP) network with a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) network where the P2MP network includes one or more aggregating devices to facilitate interfacing signaling with devices/units associated with one or more subordinate P2MP networks. | 05-19-2016 |
20150347736 | QUANTIFIED IDENTITY - Determination of a quantified identity using a multi-dimensional, probabilistic identity profiles is contemplated. The quantified identity may be used to authenticate a user entity provided to a point-of-sale device or other interface associated with identity requester in order to verify the corresponding users as who they say they are. The user identity may be determined initially as a function of user inputs made to the identity requester and/or as a function of wireless signaling exchange with devices associated with the user. | 12-03-2015 |
20150326237 | SPECTRALLY WEIGHTED ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION - Systems and methods presented herein provide for analog to digital conversion with variable bit resolution. In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and a multiplexer. The processor is operable to receive an analog signal, to detect power spectral densities in the analog signal, to segment the analog signal into at least two frequency bands, to sample each of the frequency bands, and to quantize each of the sampled frequency bands with bit resolutions according to detected power spectral densities of the frequency bands. The multiplexer is operable to multiplex the quantized frequency bands into a data stream. | 11-12-2015 |
20150324554 | REGISTRATION OF DEVICES IN A DIGITAL RIGHTS MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENT - Methods and structure for Digital Rights Management (DRM) are provided. An exemplary system includes a Digital Rights Management (DRM) licensing server. The DRM licensing server is able to receive authentication information generated by a DRM module of a client device, and to receive a device identifier that uniquely distinguishes the client device from other client devices, wherein the device identifier has been generated by the DRM module. The DRM licensing server is further able to authenticate the DRM module based on the authentication information, to create a signed identifier based on the device identifier responsive to authenticating the DRM module, and to transmit the signed identifier to the client device. The system also includes an application server able to register the client device with an account at the application server, based on the signed identifier. | 11-12-2015 |
20150319195 | OBFUSCATION OF LAWFULLY AUTHORIZED ELECTONRIC SURVEILLANCE - The obfuscation of information included in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) invites for the purposes of facilitating Lawfully Authorized Electronic Surveillance (LAES) is contemplated. The obfuscation may include the use of LAES headers with invites of sessions that require surveillance as well as those not requiring surveillance and/or selecting values or otherwise influencing parameter selection of data included in LAES headers according to a validity function, a shared secret, a key or other construct. | 11-05-2015 |
20150304684 | CORRECTION OF OVER-THE-AIR SIGNALS - Correction of errors within over-the-air signaling is contemplated. The error correction may include correcting over-the-air signaling used to facilitate transmitting content, broadcast television, etc. according to error correction data transmitted separately from the over-the-air signaling. A receiver may be configured to process the over-the-air signaling according to the error correction data so as to facilitate the contemplated error correction. | 10-22-2015 |
20150304067 | TRANSMISSION OPPORTUNITY SKIPPING FOR BURST NOISE PROTECTION - Skipping, spreading or otherwise metering signaling across multiple transmission opportunities is contemplated. The contemplated signal processing may be beneficial in ameliorating the influence of burst noise and other interferences on signal transmissions. The contemplated signal processing may be operable to facilitate supplementing and/or replacing other error correction techniques aimed at reducing signaling interference. | 10-22-2015 |
20150222909 | ADAPTIVE FIELD AND FRAME IDENTIFICATION - Adaptively indicating field and frame encoding of coded pictures, such as but not necessarily limited to those transmitted in accordance with High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) (ISO/IEC 23008-2)/ITU-T Recommendation H.265, is contemplated. The field and frame encoding indications may be provided at various levels of granularity, such as on a per picture basis, a per slice basis and/or a per slice segment basis. | 08-06-2015 |
20150162985 | MULTI-DOMAIN SCHEDULING FOR SUBORDINATE NETWORKING - Multi-domain scheduling for subordinate networking is contemplated. The scheduling may include controlling a terminal to facilitate interfacing an Internet Protocol (IP) network with a point-to-multipoint (P2MP) network where the P2MP network includes one or more aggregating devices to facilitate interfacing signaling with devices/units associated with one or more subordinate P2MP networks. | 06-11-2015 |
20150139349 | SIGNALING WITH NOISE CANCELLATION USING ECHOES - Signal transport with noise cancellation is contemplated. The noise cancellation may be facilitated with a transmitter configured to induce echoes in a signal desired for transport in order to facilitate subsequently retrieving signal components associated with noise influenced portions of the transported signal from non-noise influence portions of the transported signal. | 05-21-2015 |
20150128237 | Delegating Authorizations - Delegation of authorizations from one device to another device is contemplated. The contemplated capabilities may enable an authenticated device to confer access tokens or other authoritative permissions to a non-authenticated or unsecured device, such as to enable the delegated device to access user content without the user having to enter a username and password or other identifying credentials thereto. | 05-07-2015 |
20150085909 | METHODS FOR CANCELING INTERFERING WIRELESS SIGNALS IN CABLE CUSTOMER PREMISES EQUIPMENT DEVICES AND OUTSIDE PLANT - A noise reduction device for use with a cable signal distributed by an outside plant of a cable system. The device includes an antenna and a signal processing system. The outside plant receives an interfering radio frequency (“RF”) signal generated by one or more external wireless signal sources and combines the interfering RF signal with the cable signal to produce a noisy cable signal. The antenna receives the interfering RF signal as a copy signal. The signal processing system modifies the copy signal to produce a processed copy signal, and combines the noisy cable signal and the processed copy signal to produce a combined signal. The signal processing system also monitors error rate values of the combined signal, and adjusts the copy signal such that the copy signal at least partially cancels the interfering RF signal in the combined signal thereby reducing the error rate values of the combined signal. | 03-26-2015 |
20150085908 | METHOD FOR CANCELING INTERFERING WIRELESS SIGNALS IN CABLE CUSTOMER PREMISES EQUIPMENT DEVICES - A customer premises equipment (“CPE”) device for use with a cable signal provided by a cable system. The CPE device includes an antenna and a signal processing system. The antenna receives an interfering radio frequency (“RF”) signal generated by one or more external wireless signal sources as a copy signal. The signal processing system receives the interfering RF signal, the cable signal, and the copy signal, modifies the copy signal to produce a processed copy signal, and combines the cable signal, the interfering RF signal, and the processed copy signal to produce a combined signal. The signal processing system also monitors error rate values of the combined signal, and adjusts the copy signal such that the copy signal at least partially cancels the interfering RF signal in the combined signal thereby reducing the error rate values of the combined signal. | 03-26-2015 |
20150043626 | Analysis of Captured Random Data Signals to Measure Linear and Nonlinear Distortions - A method to capture random data signals at an end point in a broadband network and process them via digital signal processing (DSP) techniques to determine both linear distortions and nonlinear distortions. In a distribution network, such as a tree and branch cable network, the location of the impairment addition can be identified by determining location of terminals have a distortion and locations of terminals that do not have a distortion. Linear distortions may be determined by an autocorrelation of the captured signal with itself. Nonlinear distortions may be determined by processing measured energy in a vacant band with manufactured energy in the vacant band. If a vacant band is not available, one can be created by demodulating a signal occupying the band, and subtracting the demodulated signal from the measured signal plus interference in a band, leaving only the interference. | 02-12-2015 |
20150043624 | Analysis of Captured Signals to Measure Nonlinear Distortion - A method to test a signal path with vacant bandwidth by sending a test signal twice and processing two resulting nonlinear distortion signals captured in the vacant bands to determine presence of nonlinear distortion. If the signals correlate, the energy in the vacant bands is nonlinear distortion. If the test signal is sent followed by an inverse (in time-domain) of itself, and a resulting correlation peak is negative, the nonlinear distortion is determined to have been created by odd-order nonlinear distortion. | 02-12-2015 |
20150036051 | DYNAMIC PICTURE QUALITY CONTROL - A method performed by one or more computing devices. The method includes identifying first and second portions of a digital video signal. First and second values of a plurality of quality metrics are determined for the first and second portions, respectively. The first and second values of the metrics are used to determine first and second values, respectively, of a plurality of picture quality parameters such that a signal transmitted using either the first or second values of the parameters would require at most a maximum output bitrate. The first values of the parameters may differ from the second values of the parameters. The first and second portions are adjusted using the first and second values, respectively, of the parameters. The first and second adjusted portions are transmitted in a continuous signal. Optionally, the first and second adjusted portions are compressed before they are transmitted. | 02-05-2015 |
20140337146 | OFFER INCLUSION FOR OVER THE TOP (OTT) CONTENT - Inspection of over the top (OTT) content to facilitate offering non-OTT content or other content and/or services as an alternative to the OTT content is contemplated. The OTT content may be inspected at an access point configured to provide a broadband or other connection between a device consuming the OTT content and a device sourcing the content. Data packets or other signaling may be added to the OTT content at the access point in order to announce the offer. | 11-13-2014 |
20140325558 | Managing Advertisements Based On Public Records - The insertion of addressable or other dynamically determinable advertisements during playback or other access to content is contemplated. The contemplated advertisement insertion may rely upon public records to identify activities, events, engagements and other metrics related to user undertakings. The public records may then be used to facilitate pre-scheduled or otherwise adjust advertisements previously associated with accessed content. | 10-30-2014 |
20140321565 | MULTIPLE-INPUT MULTIPLE-OUTPUT (MIMO) COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) capable system is contemplated. The communication system may include a signal processor configured to separate an input stream into multiple signal paths to facilitate simultaneous transport through a communication medium. The capability to simultaneously transmit multiples signal paths may be beneficial in order to maximize throughput and/or minimize expense. | 10-30-2014 |
20140282957 | DTCP CERTIFICATE AUTHENTICATION OVER TLS PROTOCOL - Authenticating devices utilizing Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol to facilitate exchange of authentication information or other data to permit or otherwise enable access to services requiring authentication credentials, certificates, tokens or other information. The authentication may utilize Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP) certificates, Diffie-Hellman (DH) parameters or other information available to the authenticating devices, optionally without requiring device requesting authentication to obtain an X.509 certificate. | 09-18-2014 |
20140269703 | mDNS-DNS ARCHITECTURE - An architecture, such as but not necessarily limited to an architecture sufficient to facilitate service discovery within a network having two or more local area networks (LANs), is contemplated. The architecture may be employed in a router, gateway or other device configured to facilitate signaling between multiple routed networks, such as to facilitate service discovery across multiple routed networks. | 09-18-2014 |
20140259044 | Identity-Media Measurement Model (IMMM) - Identity-Media Measurement Model (IMMM), schema, table, database or other electronically transferrable form for reporting, measuring, quantifying or otherwise representing user metrics, values, etc. with respect to advertisements or other electronically interfaced propositions is contemplated. The IMMM may provide a ubiquitous tool for correlating information collected with a Media Event Data Model (MEDM) and a Media Measurement Data Model (MMDM) to represent user activities during media playback. | 09-11-2014 |
20140257956 | COUPON CODE REDEMPTION - Coupon code redemption and/or administration is contemplated. The coupon code administration may be performed by temporarily using specific codes in place of coupon codes. The specific code may be beneficial in restricting access to the coupon codes and/or swaying consumers to redeem coupon codes through certain service provider infrastructures. The specific code may be provided to a website when purchasing a product and replaced prior to purchase confirmation with the actual coupon code required for redemption. | 09-11-2014 |
20140244861 | Internet Protocol (IP) Address Translation - Translation of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) addresses is contemplated, such as for use in allowing IPv4 devices to connect with IPv6 device without requiring the IPv4 devices to specify the IPv6 address of the connected-to IPv6 device. The IPv6 addresses may be translated to IPv4 addresses suitable for use with the IPv4 devices in a manner that sufficiently compresses the IPv6 for use with the more bit limited nomenclature of an IPv4 address. | 08-28-2014 |
20140243007 | NETWORK CAPACITY REDISTRIBUTION WITH FREQUENCY RE-USE - Redistribution of network capacity in a network having a plurality of base stations is contemplated. The redistribution may include reallocating or otherwise reusing primary channels assigned to the plurality base stations to increase capacity proximate one or more of the base stations. The network capacity may be increased in this manner without having to add new base stations. | 08-28-2014 |
20140237140 | NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION - Address translation sufficient for use in translating addresses included in messages carried or otherwise transmitted between inside and outside network is contemplated. The contemplated address translation may facilitate operation of a network address translator (NAT), carrier grade network address translator (CGN), or other device similarly configured to facilitate translating inside addresses used to address messages carried over the inside network relative to outside addresses used to facilitate carrying messages over the outside network. | 08-21-2014 |
20140222978 | ROLE BASED ROUTER FUNCTIONALITY - Configuration of firewall functionality and/or determining positioning for routers operating within a multi-router network is contemplated. The firewall functionality configured for one or more of the routers may be based router positioning within the multi-router network. The firewall functionality may be automatically selected according to the router positioning in order to facilitate dynamic and/or adaptive router configuring. | 08-07-2014 |
20140219293 | TRANSMISSION OPPORTUNITY SCHEDULING - Scheduling of transmission opportunities to prevent collisions is contemplated. The transmission opportunities may be scheduled for terminal units where transmissions of one terminal unit may collide or otherwise interfere with transmissions of another terminal unit. The transmission opportunities may be scheduled according to a time-frequency grid to prevent collisions in a time domain and/or a frequency domain. | 08-07-2014 |
20140215535 | CONTENT SNYCHRONIZATION - Synchronization of content, events and other executables is contemplated. The synchronization may include synchronizing events executing on one device relative to events executing on another device, such as to facilitate syncing an interactive application executing on a tablet computer or other mobile device to a television program or other content interfaced through a television or other interface. | 07-31-2014 |
20140215413 | CONTENT SCRUBBING - Navigation of electronic content using content scrubbing is contemplated. The content scrubbing may include moving from one offset position within the content to another offset position as a function of user interaction with a navigational feature, such as but not necessary limited to scrubbing pages in an e-book or frames in a video according to user interaction with a mouse, touchpad, touchscreen, etc. | 07-31-2014 |
20140215038 | REVERSE PREFIX DELEGATION - Prefix delegation for Internet protocol (IP) prefixes or other types of prefixes. The prefix delegation resulting in multiple prefixes being delegated to internal routers and/or customer premise equipment (CPE) associated with a common link wherein at least two of the delegated prefixes are associated with different service providers. | 07-31-2014 |
20140211625 | PREDICTIVE MANAGEMENT OF A NETWORK BUFFER - Predictive management of a network buffer is contemplated. The network buffer may be predictively managed to control packet drop based at least in part on predicted sojourn time. The predicted sojourn time may be determined to predict time needed from an arriving packet to travel through a queue of the network buffer. | 07-31-2014 |
20140192982 | TRANSPORT OF PARTIALLY ENCRYPTED MEDIA - A method of facilitating transport of partially encrypted video is disclosed. The method re-packetizes or otherwise de-concatenates packets carrying the partially encrypted video into packets where all the video in each packet is either encrypted or unencrypted. The re-packetized video packets may include data that identifies whether the packet is carrying encrypted or unencrypted video. | 07-10-2014 |
20140189479 | CONTENT LINKING - Linking, tying, referencing or otherwise utilizing characters, images, alphanumerical values, codes and other metadata to link content, media, information, data and other electronically transmittable matter to an application, program, process or other logically executing construct is contemplated. Such content linking may include but is not necessarily limited to enabling content linking without requiring a server or other entity posting a corresponding link to host the linked-to content. | 07-03-2014 |
20140181947 | ADMINISTRATION OF WEB PAGE - Personalization and projection of television or other content related services is contemplated. Services may be personalized according to a user identifier or other identifier associated with a mobile device, a second screen device or other type of device. The personalized services may be projected, transferred or otherwise accessed through another device, such as but not necessarily limited to a computer, a television, a settop box (STB), a gateway, etc. | 06-26-2014 |
20140181631 | ADMINISTRATION OF WEB PAGE - Administration of a Web page is contemplated. The contemplated administration may be used to facilitate identifying state of a Web page at a first device from a remotely located second device, optionally independently of a Web server that downloads the Web page to the device. The contemplated administration may be used to facilitate changing state of Web page as provided through the first device from the remotely located second device, optionally independent of the Web server that downloads the Web page to the device. | 06-26-2014 |
20140165095 | ADVERTISEMENT INSERTION - Insertion of an advertisement within a television program or other media/content is contemplated. The advertisement insertion may be achieved when the media/content is originally transported with advertisement avails or other portions designated for advertisement insertion designated and those portions are difficult to discover, unknown, removed, obfuscated and/or generally inaccessible to a client facilitating play of the media/content. | 06-12-2014 |
20140120955 | TARGET ACCESS POINT RECOMMENDATION - Recommending a target access point is contemplated. The target access point recommendation may be used to recommend device connection to an access point having capabilities sufficient to facilitate access to electronic services, such as but not necessarily limited to recommending connection of a wireless device to a cellular or Wi-Fi capable access point. | 05-01-2014 |
20140115684 | MULTIPLE ACCESS POINT ZERO SIGN-ON - The ability to connect a device to the Internet or another type of network from various network access points in a convenient manner is contemplated. The device may be conveniently connected to the desired network without requiring user input of a username and password when connecting to the various network access points. | 04-24-2014 |
20140108673 | ADAPTIVE PREFIX DELEGATION - Adaptive prefix delegation that facilitates delegating prefixes from one device to another. The prefix delegation may be adaptively implemented to enable delegation router to make decision regarding characteristics of prefixes to be delegated. The adaptive prefix delegation may be automatically or dynamically preformed according to particularly operation capabilities of each delegating device. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108627 | ROLE BASED ROUTER FUNCTIONALITY - Configuration of firewall functionality for routers operating within a multi-router network is contemplated. The firewall functionality configured for one or more of the routers may be based router positioning within the multi-router network. The firewall functionality may be automatically selected according to the router positioning in order to facilitate dynamic and/or adaptive router configuring. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108624 | OVERLAY NETWORK - An overlay network is contemplated. The overlay network may be characterized as supporting, or at least virtually supporting, separate networks over a common infrastructure. The common infrastructure may be comprised of a plurality of routers or other devices configured to facilitate directing messages according to various addressing requirements. The use of the separate networks may be dictated according to the particular addressing requirements of each message desired for transport. | 04-17-2014 |
20140108597 | INTERFACE DIRECTIONALITY ASSIGNMENT - Assignment of directionality to interfaces, ports, receptacles, antennas and other input/output (I/O) employed by network devices to facilitate multi-device networking is contemplated. The directionality assignments may be used to facilitate assigning directionless and/or configurable router directionality in order to automatically, adaptively, dynamically or other otherwise facilitate inter-router connections within a multi-router network. | 04-17-2014 |
20140104291 | DATA VISUALIZATION - Data visualization is contemplated to facilitate pictorially or otherwise visually representing various types of data, metrics and other information to a viewer. The data visualization may be useful in visually relating multiple sets of data relative to each other in order to visually convey a relationship to the viewer. The data visualization may be useful in visually depicting signal strength or other performance data for a wireless access point relative to a street map or other geographical indicator in order to visually relate wireless signaling performance to spatially distinct areas proximate to the wireless access point. | 04-17-2014 |
20140059576 | MEDIA ENGAGEMENT FACTORS - The generation of engagement factors sufficient to represent user engagement, attention, recognition, interest and/or responsiveness to media being shown or otherwise access through an output device is contemplated. The engagement factors may be values or other representations sufficient to facilitate categorizing viewer activities during playback of particular portions of the media. | 02-27-2014 |
20140055490 | SERVICE COVERAGE IDENTIFICATION USING AUGMENTED REALITY - Facilitating service coverage identification using augmented reality is contemplated. The service coverage information may relate to wireless signaling metrics collected for wireless access points. A reality view captured with a mobile device to reflect an area proximate the access points may augmented with the service coverage information such that the resulting augmented reality view identifies variances or other parameters of the service coverage information relative to the mobile device. | 02-27-2014 |
20140007198 | APPLICATION AUTHORIZATION FOR VIDEO SERVICES | 01-02-2014 |
20140007174 | BACK CHANNEL COMMUNICATION | 01-02-2014 |
20140007163 | INTERACTIVE MATRIX CELL TRANSFORMATION USER INTERFACE | 01-02-2014 |
20140007158 | EMERGENCY ALERT SYSTEM (EAS) ALERT GENERATION | 01-02-2014 |
20140006593 | USAGE BASED ACCOUNTING FOR NETWORK DEPLOYMENT | 01-02-2014 |
20140003547 | ORTHOGONAL SIGNAL DEMODULATION | 01-02-2014 |
20140003477 | INTERLEAVED SIGNALING | 01-02-2014 |
20140003336 | NETWORK TRAFFIC PRIORITIZATION | 01-02-2014 |
20140003334 | LOCATION BASED AUTHENTICATION FOR ONLINE SERVICES | 01-02-2014 |
20140003307 | TIME DOMAIN DUPLEX (TDD) SWITCHING SYSTEM | 01-02-2014 |
20140003258 | MULTI-CARRIER TRANSMISSION | 01-02-2014 |
20140003254 | DYNAMIC NETWORK SELECTION | 01-02-2014 |
20130344876 | NETWORK CAPACITY REDISTRIBUTION WITH FREQUENCY RE-USE - Redistribution of network capacity in a network having a plurality of base stations is contemplated. The redistribution may include reallocating or otherwise reusing primary channels assigned to the plurality base stations to increase capacity proximate one or more of the base stations. The network capacity may be increased in this manner without having to add new base stations. | 12-26-2013 |
20130315086 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF CONTROLLING STATE OF DEVICES OPERABLE TO SUPPORT CALLS BETWEEN ENDPOINTS - A method and system of controlling state for devices operable to support signaling or sessions between endpoints, such as the type used to support phone, video, messaging, and other calls. The state control may include transitioning the device between in-service and out-of-service states as a function of current, past or future operating demands on the devices. | 11-28-2013 |
20130312074 | ESTABLISHING VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORK SESSION USING ROAMING CREDENTIALS - Providing virtual private network (VPN) sessions or other types of secure or private access to data when a client authorized to access the data travels or otherwise roams from a home network to a partner network is contemplated. The VPN session may be established as part of or as a result of an authentication process undertaken by the client when gaining access to the partner network, such as but not necessarily limited to a home network authentication process undertaken at the partner network to authenticate the client to access partner network services. | 11-21-2013 |
20130312018 | PERSONALIZING SERVICES USING PRESENCE DETECTION - Presence detection having granularity sufficient to passively facilitate personalizing services according to particular individuals. Wireless signaling associated with individuals may be assessed to determine individual presence relative to a particular servicing device. The services accessed through the servicing device may be personalized according to an arrival and a departure of the individuals in order to vary services according to individual presence. | 11-21-2013 |
20130311771 | SUBSCRIBER CERTIFICATE PROVISIONING - Provisioning a device with a certificate is contemplated. The certificate may be used to verify whether the device or a user of the device is authorized to access electronic content, services, and signaling. The certificate may be provisioned in relation to the device having successfully completed a two-factor authentication process so that an entity providing the certificate need not have to repeat the two-factor authentication process. | 11-21-2013 |
20130276062 | WATERMARKS FOR ROAMING - A watermarking process is contemplated to facilitate branding and other message communication operations, such as to facilitate notifying a user associated with a home service provider watermark or communicating advertisements and/or personal messages to the user while accessing services through a visited service provider. The contemplated watermarking process may be particularly beneficial with devices having capabilities to roam between multiple service providers. | 10-17-2013 |
20130268691 | REDIRECTING WEB CONTENT - Continued access to services, content, and other electronically-based signaling is contemplated. The continued access may be facilitated with a redirect server or other device having capabilities sufficient to facilitate redirecting content when the user desires to transition access from a first device to a second device, such as but not limited to facilitating redirection of a television program streamed to a tablet so that the to the television program can be viewed through a television without disrupting or overburdening a sourcing entity originating the television program. | 10-10-2013 |
20130247164 | MULTIPLE ACCESS POINT ZERO SIGN-ON - The ability to connect a device to the Internet or another type of network from various network access points in a convenient manner is contemplated. The device may be conveniently connected to the desired network without requiring user input of a username and password when connecting to the various network access points. | 09-19-2013 |
20130243010 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OPERABLE TO FACILITATE SIGNAL TRANSPORT OVER A NETWORK - A method and system operable to implement a multiple range, and optionally one-dimensional, transport scheduling process suitable to facilitate signal transport over a network for a variety of traffic types with different service requirements where two-dimensional mapping across frequency and/or time is required. | 09-19-2013 |
20130212299 | SELECTIVE NETWORK TRANSMISSION - Network transmission of messages is contemplated. The contemplated transmission may be facilitated a selectable one or more interfaces. The interfaces may be included as part of a gateway or other device tasked with facilitating network communications, such as but not limited to a gateway tasked with facilitate network transmissions between device connected to a home network and devices connected beyond the home network. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208632 | NOISE MANAGEMENT FOR COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A duplex communication system having gate-implemented noise management is contemplated. The system may include a gate or other device sufficiently operable to facilitate managing upstream and downstream signaling so as to ameliorate noise funneling between communicating endpoints by selectively controlling communication paths through which noise may be propagated. Optionally, the system may be operably configured to facilitate this type of gate-implemented noise management for time domain duplex (TDD) and frequency domain duplex (FDD) communications. | 08-15-2013 |
20130208597 | NETWORK ADDRESS TRANSLATION - Address translation sufficient for use in translating addresses included in messages carried or otherwise transmitted between inside and outside network is contemplated. The contemplated address translation may facilitate operation of a network address translator (NAT), carrier grade network address translator (CGN), or other device similarly configured to facilitate translating inside addresses used to address messages carried over the inside network relative to outside addresses used to facilitate carrying messages over the outside network. | 08-15-2013 |
20130201283 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATION OF CAPTIONS OVER STEREOSCOPIC 3D IMAGES - Management of graphical overlays for use in stereoscopic video where the graphical overlay is positioned relative to depths associated with objects showing in the video. A disparity offset processor may be configured to facilitate generating overlay mapping information as a function of object depth maps in order to facilitate positioning one or move graphical overlays relative to corresponding objects. | 08-08-2013 |
20130176297 | SIGNAL IDENTIFICATION FOR DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING - A signal identification process as contemplated to facilitate output of signaling based at least in part on metadata transmitted with the signaling. The contemplated processing may include facilitating output of the content according to one of a plurality of output modes depending on the metadata specifying values for a dynamic floating window (DFW) field and a 2K format conversion preference field. | 07-11-2013 |
20130155854 | Multi-Tier Polling - A polling arrangement where polling frequency and/or rates may be adjusted according to activities of end stations or other elements being polled. The ability to adjust the polling activities may be used to facilitate reducing or otherwise controlling network resources allocated to the supporting the polling or other messaging depending operations. | 06-20-2013 |
20130111065 | INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) ADDRESS TRANSLATION | 05-02-2013 |
20130107117 | TELEVISION DISPLAYED MESSAGING | 05-02-2013 |
20130067110 | DETERMINISTIC MAPPING - Network address translating is contemplated to be of a type where a network address translator (NAT), a carrier grade NAT (CGN), or other type of translator may facilitate reconstruction of translated addresses in a manner that ameliorates the amount of data that must be stored to facilitate the reconstruction. | 03-14-2013 |
20130067021 | VERSION SELECTIVE CONTENT DELIVERY - A method and system of ID based content delivery where the selection and transmission of content is facilitated with use of version IDs associated with each available version of each particular piece of content. A relationship may be generated between the available versions in the version IDs to facilitate determining the version ID associated with a version desired for rendering at a particular type of terminal. | 03-14-2013 |
20130064525 | METHOD OF MODIFYING PLAY OF AN ORIGINAL CONTENT FORM - A method of facilitating modified content play such that modification actions may be implemented during play of original content form. The modification actions may be specified by users to modify the original content form. The modification may be disseminated to subscribers or other users desiring similar content modifications. The method may be useful in social networking systems to allow social members to share commentary and otherwise modify original content forms to include their personal reflections. | 03-14-2013 |
20130007868 | ZERO SIGN-ON AUTHENTICATION - A method of facilitating zero sign-on access to media services depending on trust credentials. The trust credentials may be cookies, certificates, and other data sets operable to be stored on a device used to access the media services such that information included therein may be used to control the zero sign-on capabilities of the user device. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007799 | DYNAMIC ADVERTISEMENT COPY INSERT - A method of dynamic advertisement insertion is disclosed where an essentially limitless number of non-staged, unbound advertisement advertisements are made available for advertisement insertion. The dynamic advertisement insertion may include the use of stage, bound advertisements so as to permit dynamic insertion of staged and non-staged advertisements. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007576 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF WEB APPLICATIONS AND MEDIA - A method to facilitate synchronizing web applications with media playing within a web browser while rendering a web page. The synchronization allowing web applications to be executed during play of IP transmitted media without the web browser having to pre-load the web applications or re-load the web page. | 01-03-2013 |
20130007226 | CONTENT MULTICASTING - A multicast system is contemplated. The multicast system may be configured to facilitate changing between multicast steams by caching one multicast stream while tuned to another multicast stream in anticipation of tuning to the cached multicast stream. Attributes associated with available multicast streams may be communicated to assist accessing devices in deciding which one or more of the available multicast streams to cache. | 01-03-2013 |
20130006784 | PERSONAL AUTHENTICATION - A method and system of authenticating a person is disclosed. The authentication may include verifying authenticity of the person when interacting with a point of sale system or other authenticating requesting device according to whether biometric information collected proximate in time to the authentication request sufficiently correlates with biometric information previously collected from trust sources. | 01-03-2013 |
20130005350 | OPTIMIZING NETWORK ACCESS - A network access optimization strategy where mobile device may be directed to access particular networks depending on operation requirements and characteristic. The optimization strategy may rely on a traveling speed of the mobile to device to broadly prioritize a network type suitable for the given traveling speed. | 01-03-2013 |
20130003869 | FRAME IDENTIFICATION - An unbound, out-of-band identification concept for identifying video frames and/or other data sets within a transport stream. The identification may include the use of reference markers to identify the video frames independently of a transmission protocol used to facilitate the transport stream. This type of ubiquitous generation of reference markings may allow the reference markers to be easily propagated and used with disparate transmission protocols and transport streams. | 01-03-2013 |
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20120291083 | Media Files Delivery System And Method - A file server delivers media files in unicast mode to a media gateway device in response to user requests, and a FCAST/NORM media streamer delivers a stream of these media files in multicast mode to the media gateway device. By using a file server operating in unicast mode and a FCAST/NORM media streamer delivering a stream of these media files in multicast mode, it is possible to switch seamlessly between the two modes in an embodiment. In an embodiment of the invention, a media gateway device includes a cache memory for storing media files from the file server and/or the FCAST/NORM media streamer; and a controller that controls delivery of media files from the cache memory to the user and transmits user requests for media files to the file server when the cache memory does not contain the media files requested by the user. Thus, the controller requests media files from the file server only when the media files requested by the user are not cached. Otherwise, the media files requested by the user are fetched from the cache memory for delivery to the user. In this manner, the media files requested by the user will be delivered by the file server in unicast mode only when the FCAST/NORM media streamer has not supplied such files to the gateway device for caching. | 11-15-2012 |
20120278840 | USER INTERFACE HAVING READING LENS - A user interface, such as a graphical user interface or other electronic displayable interface, is contemplated. The user interface may include a reading lens portion configured to facilitate providing expanded viewing of content from other portions of the display. The reading lens portion may be displayed according to a non-linear timeline as to facilitate identifying upcoming contents without being constrained by a linear timeline used in other portions of the user interface. | 11-01-2012 |
20120246674 | DATA DRIVEN TEST FIXTURE FOR SYSTEMS OF WEB SERVICES - A data driven test system for web service or other service dependent on message exchange between service points or other communicating entities is contemplated. The testing system may be configured as a multi-stage tester having capabilities to conduct sequence, structure, and content test in order to narrowly identify errors of service points while subjected to a test protocol. | 09-27-2012 |
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20120008912 | TIME-SHIFT BUFFER - A method and system is disclosed for time-shifted access to media content. The time-shifted access may be facilitate with a time-shift buffer and the use of time-shift buffers to mark periods in time from which time-shifted access is to be begin according to triggering events registered at output devices being used to facilitate the time-shifted access. | 01-12-2012 |
20120005368 | ADAPTIVE BIT RATE METHOD AND SYSTEM USING RETRANSMISSION AND REPLACEMENT - An adaptive method and system for dynamically facilitating access to higher quality content in the event transport of the higher quality content requires a greater allocation of network resources when compared to transport of the same content at a lower quality. | 01-05-2012 |
20120005361 | ADAPTIVE BIT RATE FOR DATA TRANSMISSION - An adaptive bit rate system for use in transmitting data at adaptable bit rates. The bit rate may be adjusted according to historical behaviors and/or past operational settings, such as but not limited to adjusted a request bit rate to a different bit rate depending the historical behavior. | 01-05-2012 |
20120002115 | LOCATION-BASED TUNER - A method and system of facilitating tuning to content and/or signal streams, including capabilities to facilitate tuning when traveling from one geographical location to another where the different geographical areas may be rely on different identifiers to facilitate locating the content and/or signaling of interest. | 01-05-2012 |
20120002111 | SYNCHRONIZATION OF 2ND SCREEN APPLICATIONS - A method and system to synchronize a user experience between multiple output devices. The synchronization may be facilitated with communications between the multiple output devices timed relative to content, event, actions, and occurrences taking place within media being accessed by at least one of the multiple output devices. | 01-05-2012 |
20110158406 | ZERO SIGN-ON AUTHENTICATION - A authenticating system and process for authenticating user devices to a access a media service where access to certain portions of the media service may be limited according to a gateway or other device used by a user device to facilitate interfacing a user with the media service. The authentication may be achieved without directly assessing a trustworthiness of the user devices, and optionally, without requiring a user thereof to complete a sign-on operation. | 06-30-2011 |
20110157303 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATION OF CAPTIONS OVER STEROSCOPIC 3D IMAGES - A method and system is disclosed for generating a caption relative to a three-dimensional (3D) image. The caption may be generated such that it appears relative to a screen plane of an output device used to render the 3D image. The caption may be added to left and right viewpoint images included within images used by the output device to render the 3D image as a function of the positioning of the caption relative to the screen plane. | 06-30-2011 |
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20110134936 | MULTI-TIER POLLING - A polling arrangement where polling frequency and/or rates may be adjusted according to activities of end stations or other elements being polled. The ability to adjust the polling activities may be used to facilitate reducing or otherwise controlling network resources allocated to the supporting the polling or other messaging depending operations. | 06-09-2011 |
20110134935 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OPERABLE TO FACILITATE SIGNAL TRANSPORT OVER A NETWORK - A method and system operable to implement a multiple range, and optionally one-dimensional, transport scheduling process suitable to facilitate signal transport over a network for a variety of traffic types with different service requirements where two-dimensional mapping across frequency and/or time is required. | 06-09-2011 |
20110072458 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF DISTRIBUTING ADVERTISEMENTS - Method and system of distributing advertisements for storage in a network. The stored advertisements being retrievable for insertion within or other association with services provided to a network subscriber. Identifying characteristics of the advertisement may be used to facilitate the storage thereof and identifying characteristics of the customs may be used to facilitate advertisements associated with services accessed thereby. | 03-24-2011 |
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20110012990 | ADAPTIVE HDMI FORMATTING SYSTEM FOR 3D VIDEO TRANSMISSION - A system configured to support video formatting without a priori knowledge of video formatting requirements of a display device. The system relies on video information transmitted from the display device to a source device to facilitate determining the video formatting requirements of the display device. The system can be used within any television network, gaming network, and content sourcing network where it may be advantageous to deploy a source device that can support formatting requirements for a plurality of different display types. | 01-20-2011 |
20110002229 | DYNAMIC MANAGEMENT OF END-TO-END NETWORK LOSS DURING A PHONE CALL - A method and system of managing end-to-end loss in a manner that allows phone calls to be executed across many networks at desirable end-to-end loss levels, including networks having fixed-loss stratagems, by controlling devices to adjust their local loss or gain in order to establish target end-to-end loss. | 01-06-2011 |
20100329644 | AUTOMATED PROGRAMMING RECORDING - A method and system of providing access to television programs without requiring a user to operate an electronic programming guide or to independently determining information required to access the television program. Optionally, access to the television program may be facilitated by scheduling a recording of the televisions program or providing instructions to facilitate accessing an on-demand showing of the television program. | 12-30-2010 |
20100150527 | SEGMENT BOUNDARY OBFUSCATION - A method and system for obfuscating segment boundary markers, such as but not limited to obfuscating boundary markers used to identify beginning and/or ending boundaries of a sequence of segments forming a programming event. The obfuscation may be achieved by embedding decoy and offset boundary markers within the sequence of segments. | 06-17-2010 |
20100104257 | AUTOMATED RUN-TIME ADJUSTMENT - A method and system for automated run-time adjustment that includes an ability to start or end a scheduled recording at an earlier or later period of time. The adjustment may allow a program to be recorded in its entirety regardless of whether the program is starting late or running long. The recording period adjustments performed in accordance with the contemplated run-time adjustment may be made with reliance on data transmitted with the program in order to optionally insure the adjustment are made with respect to the actual content and not some pre-determined or arbitrary recording extension inputted by a user. | 04-29-2010 |
20100100449 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF ADVERTISING WITHOUT ADDING TAGS TO CONTENT STREAMS - A method and system of advertising that facilitates an automated advertisement process where a user, at any point during playback, simply makes a request to view an advertisement and an advertisement related to the current point of playback is automatically provided. The advertisement can be related to a scene showing proximate in time to the request so that the user can specify what type of advertisement is provided and when it is provided. | 04-22-2010 |
20100070639 | Network Clone Detection - Each client device among a group of client devices whose access to a network is controlled by the same Network Access Control server will have a unique physical address. However, the same physical address may exist among a group of client devices controlled by different Network Access Control server. To detect and block clone devices from obtaining service, each Network Access Control server will have its own identifier and this identifier is one of the authorization parameters used by the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocols server for determining whether the request for an IP address is from an authorized client device. | 03-18-2010 |
20100023783 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DECRYPTING ENCRYPTED CONTENT - System and method of decrypting content. The content may be decrypted with decryption keys stored on a secured dongle. The dongle may be connect to a computer and used to decrypt the content for the computer, limiting the decryption-based processing demands on the computer. The computer may output the decrypted content to an output device for access by a user. The dongle may be single-use device pre-configured with a number of unchangeable keys and security measures. | 01-28-2010 |
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20090119728 | TUNING RESOLVER - A method and system for supporting media services on devices lacking capabilities to execute reverse transmission communicates necessary to request and/or locate the services. The method and system may be suitable for use with switched broadcast television (SBT) system having unidirectional digital cable products (UDCPs) which are unable to execute reverse transmission communicates necessary to support SBT. | 05-07-2009 |
20090064221 | METHOD OF AUTOMATICALLY SWITCHING TELEVISION CHANNELS - Method for automatically switching television channels or other content sources. The method may be used with any electronic media to facilitate switching between channels or other content sources based on events or other occurrences in non-viewed channels, such as but not limited to switching channels based on sporting event occurrences (goals, ending of game, etc.), news event occurrence (breaking news, health tips, etc.), and other any number of other identifiable events. | 03-05-2009 |
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