Patents Assigned to ARRIS Enterprises, LLC
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Publication number: 20240137623Abstract: A method for updating an embedded device that includes a processor that receives an image file including at least one of kernel software, hardware configuration data, and application software. The embedded device parses the image file to determine portions of the image file that have been indicated by at least one flag as being modified from that currently being included on the embedded device. The embedded device installing at least portions of the image file on the embedded device and resetting portions of the embedded device based upon the at least one flag.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: John DiNatale, Steve Schroeder, Peter Walter, Kumara Swamy Tadikavagilu Venkatappa, Dave Padula
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Patent number: 11968411Abstract: A statistical multiplexer (statmux) system for encoding multiple channels of digital television data is provided with improved algorithms for determining bitrate for encoding and decoding to account for signal complexity. The variable bit rate (VBR) encoders and encoding are provided in a statmux system by employing a CBR (constant bit rate) adapter. A CBR adapter can provide correcting state updates on a per-frame basis to a CBR encoder element, thereby enabling VBR capability.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventor: Brenda Van Veldhuisen
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Patent number: 11968168Abstract: A network device having an embedded router (eRouter) providing connections for a plurality of client devices in a local area network, and an embedded cable modem (eCM) bridging communication between a wide area network (WAN) network and the eRouter. The network device also includes a memory, and at least one processor configured to execute instructions stored on said memory to cause said network device to implement an eRouter physical interface and an eCM physical interface according to a configuration file, and to transmit a generic routing encapsulation (GRE) domain name system (DNS) query to a DNS server from the eRouter physical interface or the eCM physical interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLCInventor: Wen Ji Zhao
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Patent number: 11968474Abstract: A design for a Tunable Cable Simulator with a minimum number of components and low insertion loss.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: Zhijian Sun, Brent D. Arnold, Eric J. Cormier, Marcel F. C. Schemmann
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Publication number: 20240129553Abstract: A method of partitioning a video coding block for JVET, comprising representing a JVET coding tree unit as a root node in a quadtree plus binary tree (QTBT) structure that can have a quadtree branching from the root node and binary trees branching from each of the quadtree's leaf nodes using asymmetric binary partitioning to split a coding unit represented by a quadtree leaf node into two child nodes of unequal size, representing the two child nodes as leaf nodes in a binary tree branching from the quadtree leaf node and coding the child nodes represented by leaf nodes of the binary tree with JVET, wherein coding efficiency is improved by taking advantage of the similarity of coding modes 2 and 66.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: Krit PANUSOPONE, Yue YU, Seungwook HONG, Limin WANG
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Publication number: 20240129559Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for selectively reordering a plurality of content titles in a queue storing content titles to be delivered to a Video-on-Demand (VOD) server accessible to customers over a content delivery network, and delivered by an availability window start time, by using an estimated time to such delivery.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: Brian D. WALLER, Brajesh ARORA, Anurag ARORA
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Publication number: 20240129229Abstract: Systems and methods for restoring lost or corrupted data in packets that traverse a packet-switched network. In some embodiments, a device at the edge of a packet switched network may restore data that was originally inserted in a packet header by a sender, but overwritten or bleached during transport over a network by identifying an associated packet, and transferring a value from the associated packet to the packet.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventor: Ian WHEELOCK
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Publication number: 20240129053Abstract: In some embodiments, a first computing device detects a loss of a connection to a first source of timing information that the first computing device and a second computing device use to maintain synchronization with a first clock and a second clock. The first computing device receives a second source of timing information from the second computing device. The second source of timing information is also being transmitted to a third computing device. The first computing device uses the second source of timing information to determine a first timestamp and determines a second timestamp from the first clock. The first computing device uses the first timestamp and the second timestamp to adjust a rate of the first clock where the first clock is used to transmit the second source of timing information from the second computing device to the third computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventor: Anthony John Cotter
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Publication number: 20240129596Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product for trickplay in HTTP live streaming (HLS), includes: establishing a connection to a content source; receiving a piece of content from a content source as a multimedia stream, wherein the multimedia stream comprises a digital living network alliance stream; converting the multimedia stream into a client stream that comprises a HLS stream, the HLS stream including a manifest file containing a plurality of transport stream packets; storing a pre-determined number of the plurality of transport stream packets in a temporary storage; outputting the client stream to a media player; receiving a first trickplay request from the media player, the first trickplay request being a pause request; in response to the first trickplay request: pausing the client stream; transmitting a signal keeping the connection to the content source alive and the multimedia stream active; and storing the multimedia stream in the temporary storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLCInventors: Mark S. SCHMIDT, Virendra SINGH, Senthilkumar MUTHUKRISHNAN, Harish Doddasinkere CHIKKAMANCHAIAH
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Patent number: 11962698Abstract: A system and method for receiving secure data in a client device. In one embodiment, the method comprises (a) receiving a token having a token ID and a digital certificate generated by a certificate authority (CA) having client device fingerprint data generated from client device parameters, (b) accepting a request in the client device to provide secure data to the client device, (c) regenerating the client device fingerprint data from the client device parameters, (d) determining, in the client device, differences between the client device fingerprint data of the digital certificate from the regenerated client device fingerprint data, and (e) transmitting a request to a secure data service to provide secure data based upon the determination.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: Jason A. Pasion, John Okimoto, Xin Qiu, Alexander Medvinsky, Ting Yao, Jinsong Zheng, Oscar Jiang
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Patent number: 11962563Abstract: A MAP-T system that shares an IPv4 address with one or more other MAP-T systems identifies low latency (LL) traffic for an upstream and a downstream perspective by enhancing NAT of ports using MAP-T rules. The MAP-T rules provide a range of transport ports with a transport slice providing for a subdivision of the transports into a subnet range so as to isolate certain ports for mapping LL traffic. An access point device and a cable modem of the MAP-T system are configured so as to appropriately transform any received traffic so as to properly direct the traffic.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLCInventor: Ian G. Wheelock
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Patent number: 11962626Abstract: A digital conference system can include a digital conference manager that automatically selects a digital conference service based on one or more digital conference parameters. A digital conference agent can request a digital conference configuration from a policy manager 204 that is based on the one or more digital conference parameters. The policy manager 204 can send the selected digital conference configuration to the digital conference agent that sends the selected digital conference configuration or an identifier associated with a digital conference service associated with the digital conference configuration to a digital conference service manager. The digital conference service manager establishes a digital conference connection based on the digital conference service received from the digital conference agent.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLCInventors: Sudeepta Bhuyan, Anand Madhav Rao Hallur
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Patent number: 11962400Abstract: A system for more granular channel map delivery in support of operationally enabling more granular plant bandwidth manipulation.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventor: Christopher Poli
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Patent number: 11962823Abstract: A system and method for enabling adaptive streaming management in a broadband multimedia environment. The system utilizes content information (title, streaming resolution, etc.), in conjunction with information indicative of one or more of display device resolution capabilities, device display resolution capabilities, total streaming bandwidth capability of broadband source, and the aggregate bandwidth of all streams being provided to client devices to provide an adaptive process by which media gateway resources can be utilized to improve the availability to optimized content to one or more users.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventor: Krishna Prasad Panje
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Publication number: 20240121425Abstract: A method for inter-coding video in which encoder and decoder memory requirements associated with storage of motion information related to collocated coding units is reduced. In the method motion information related to only a single or reduced set of collocated coding unit(s) may be stored at the encoder and decoder. In operation, if the encoder determines that motion information for a current coding unit should replace a currently stored motion information for currently stored motion information for the collocated coding unit, then the encoder can replace the motion information at the encoder and transmit an indicator with the current coding unit to signal to the decoder that currently stored motion information currently should be updated or replaced with the motion information associated with the current coding unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: Yue Yu, Krit Panusopone, Limin Wang, Seungwook Hong
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Patent number: 11956445Abstract: A method is provided for inter-coding video in which transmission bandwidth requirements associated with second motion vectors for bi-directional temporal prediction is reduced. In the method, vector information for one of motion vectors for multi-directional temporal prediction can be transmitted together with information on how to derive or construct the second motion vectors. Thus, rather than sending express information regarding each of the plurality of motion vectors, express information related to only one motion vector along with information related to reconstruction/derivation of the second motion vectors is transmitted, thus reducing bandwidth requirements and increasing coding efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: Yue Yu, Krit Panusopone, Limin Wang
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Patent number: 11956576Abstract: A system for resource targeted scheduling for a PON network.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: Shawn W. Warner, Brian K. Gilbride, Tarkesh R. Mahajan, Jonathan R. Sawin
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Patent number: 11956477Abstract: A system and method for coding video in which deblocking artifacts are reduced by using modified filtering that is based, at least in part on pixel intensity associated with a coding unit, such that filtering levels are increased as pixel intensity increases. In some embodiments, an offset value or indicator of an offset value for parameters associated with deblocking filter parameters can be associated with a filtering level that is based at least in part on an intensity value.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: David M. Baylon, Ajay Luthra
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Patent number: 11956459Abstract: A method of decoding JVET video includes receiving a bitstream indicating how a coding tree unit was partitioned into coding units, and parsing said bitstream to generate at least one predictor based on an intra prediction mode signaled in the bitstream. The predictor may be generated by interpolating neighboring pixels for each pixel within a coding block. The computation may be more accurate by deriving a value for a bottom right neighboring pixel.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: Krit Panusopone, Seungwook Hong, Limin Wang
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Publication number: 20240111650Abstract: During operation, an electronic device may receive, associated with a computer, a packet or a frame that includes a dynamic power reset pattern, where the dynamic power reset pattern specifies temporal pattern of power resets. Then, the electronic device may detect multiple power resets, where a given detected power reset in the detected power resets involves activation of a power reset button in the electronic device. Moreover, the electronic device may compute a detected power reset pattern, where the detected power reset pattern includes a detected temporal pattern of detected power resets. Next, the electronic device may compare the dynamic power reset pattern and the detected power reset pattern. Furthermore, based at least in part on a result of the comparison, the electronic device may at least selectively provide, to the computer, the result of the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: ARRIS Enterprises LLCInventors: Xing Peng, Cui Zhineng, Jilu Sun, YuJie Zhou, Wenjun Ji, Tyan-Shu Jou