Patents Assigned to ARRIS Enterprise, Inc.
  • Simplified configuration of a network device
    Patent number: 9258298
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to pair a client device with a CPE device. The methods, systems and computer readable media described in this disclosure can enable the pairing of a client device with a CPE device upon a connection of the client device to a whole-network associated with the CPE device. Further, methods, systems and computer readable media can enable the secure pairing of a client device with a CPE device with little to no user-input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Carol J. Ansley
  • System to provide index and metadata for content on demand
    Patent number: 9247207
    Abstract: A content on demand system includes logic to compose information about multiple audio and/or video streams into an audio and/or video stream format, and logic to communicate the information about multiple audio and/or video streams to a plurality of set top boxes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Cliff Aaby, Christian J. Parker
  • Method and system for denying cable modem access to a broadband network
    Patent number: 9240995
    Abstract: A device, such as a cable modem or embedded media terminal adaptor that attempts to obtain unauthorized network services, is designated by head end equipment, such as a CMTS, as being a ‘rogue’ device. Upon a range request from the rogue device, the CMTS responds with a continuing range command. Upon receiving each periodic range request transmitted from the rogue device during a periodic station maintenance opportunity, the CMTS responds with another continuing range command. Thus, the rogue device does not ever establish connection with the CMTS because an ACK message is not received back from the CMTS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey J Howe, Alan Doucette
  • Method and system for in-field recovery of security when a certificate authority has been compromised
    Patent number: 9240993
    Abstract: A certificate credential is generated based on a user device's private key securely stored, or accessible, by a certificate authority. When the certificate authority has been compromised, the credential, which typically includes information encrypted with the device's private key and the corresponding unencrypted information, is sent to the device. The device receives the information in encrypted and unencrypted form and decrypts the encrypted information. If the result of the decryption matches the unencrypted information, the device trusts the signer of the credential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Ali Negahdar
  • Content validation techniques
    Patent number: 9241176
    Abstract: A video server inserts unique content identifiers into private packets of a digital program stream file as a result of loading the file onto a video server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean M. Sheedy, Carl H. Seaton
  • Resilient channel and broadcast modulation
    Patent number: 9225576
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses can provide a plurality of RF channels and outputs using digital modulation and combining. In various examples, generation of digital IQ packetized data in combination with digital switching can increase the number of RF modulated channels, optimize broadcast transmission and/or provide transmission resiliency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Harrington, Frank O'Keeffe
  • Alternative set-top gateway source for DOCSIS 3.0
    Patent number: 9219613
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses can operate to convert static multicast stream to dynamic multicast streams. Systems can include a static to dynamic converter operating to receive static multicast streams and to convert the static multicast streams into dynamic multicast streams. The dynamic multicast streams are then provided to a network edge component operable to provide multicast downstream service identifier forwarding enabled video streams to one or more media gateways enabled to receive such video streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Carol Ansley
  • Method and system for timing media stream modifications
    Patent number: 9219930
    Abstract: A system and method for triggering media stream modifications and for modifying media streams accordingly. The method includes a first step of determining, by an apparatus, an opportunity to modify a compressed media stream, by a media stream modifier, to provide a modified media stream that includes additional video content; and a second step of generating modification information representative of said determination, to be further transmitted to the media stream modifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Ran Oz, S. V. Vasudevan, Nery Strasman, Amir Leventer
  • Fiber node discovery using ranging delay data
    Patent number: 9215173
    Abstract: Systems and methods can provide for fiber node discovery using ranging delay data for broadband communication infrastructure. In some implementations, such systems and methods can provide for determining and storing fiber node ranging delay windows. In other implementations, such systems and methods can also provide for using ranging delay data from CPE devices to ascertain the associated fiber node. Improved diagnosis and discovery of fiber node associated CPE devices can, for example, help operators plan maintenance and thereby reduce truck rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Williams
  • Systems and methods for reducing frequency spectrum losses in a bidirectional communication system
    Patent number: 9209898
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques for a full or partial elimination of a diplexer in the communication system. Embodiments disclosed include techniques for avoiding the loss of usable frequency spectrum to reduce the bit/Hz efficiency needed in a bidirectional high bitrate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel F. Schemmann, William P. Dawson, Derald Cummings
  • Measuring quality of experience and identifying problem sources for various service types
    Patent number: 9210453
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can provide for measuring the quality of experience levels and locating the sources of problems for service types in a network. This can be facilitated by sending one or more scout packets through the network, identifying those scout packets at the various network elements on a path within the network between a source and a destination, and compiling scout information identified by each of the various network elements to determine potential service degradation within the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Cloonan, Erich C. Arnold, Harindranath P. R. Nair
  • Location-based data stream composition
    Patent number: 9210028
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to aggregate requested multimedia content and location-based content. Aggregating requested multimedia content and location-based content can be facilitated by determining the location of a client device based on information received from the client device, retrieving location-based content segments and aggregating location-based content segments with user-requested content segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: George Scott Pinson
  • Pivotable Fan Assembly and Associated Systems
    Publication number: 20150351280
    Abstract: A pivotable fan assembly includes a mounting frame, a panel, and a bracket. The panel can be coupled to the mounting frame at a first edge. The panel can pivot about the mounting frame between a first position and an angularly displaced second position. At least one fan assembly can be coupled to the bracket, which extends distally from the panel with a first pair of adjacent sides of the fan assembly bounded by the panel and the bracket and a second pair of adjacent sides of the fan assembly unbounded and exposed. When attached to a chassis cover, the panel can pivot to expose the fan assembly for tool-less replacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos Paul Gonzalez Inda, Humberto Cruz Corral, Oswaldo Enrique Linares Rivas, Luis Lopez Moreno, Julio Cesar Ayala Vera, Monica Arroyo Calderon
  • Intelligent traffic optimizer
    Patent number: 9203767
    Abstract: Bandwidth is assigned to subscribers of a data network by applying logic of one or more network devices to sample bits of information communicated over a network communication medium to identify if there is a network congestion condition or an extremely lightly loaded condition. The maximum bandwidth assigned to a subscriber is below a normative maximum bandwidth assigned to the subscriber if the network is congested and the logic of the one or more network devices identifies the subscriber as a heavy bandwidth user. The maximum bandwidth assigned to a subscriber is above the normative maximum bandwidth if the network is extremely lightly loaded and the subscriber is a heavy bandwidth user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Ayham Al-Banna, Carol Ansley, Thomas J Cloonan, Jeffrey J Howe
  • CMTS plant topology fault management
    Patent number: 9203638
    Abstract: A cable television plant may include fiber nodes, cable modems, a management information base (MIB), and a cable modem termination system (CMTS). The CMTS may include logic to apply information from the MIB to determine the suitability of resources assigned to the fiber nodes from particular MAC domains for providing data communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: William T Hanks
  • Detecting plant degradation using peer-comparison
    Patent number: 9197886
    Abstract: A method implemented in a computer system for detecting performance degradation in a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) cable plant having customer premises equipment (CPE) elements, active elements, and passive elements. The method collects radio frequency (RF) metric values, computes absolute deviation values of the RF metric values from reference RF metric values, computes relative hierarchical deviation values of the RF metric values, and computes relative peer deviation values of the RF metric values. The method sends an alarm message to an operator when the absolute deviation value, relative hierarchical deviation value, or relative peer deviation value for any element exceeds a threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Harindranath P. Nair, Christopher J. Bates, Vishal Dhruv
  • Adaptive streaming using non-local information
    Patent number: 9197559
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses can provide for adaptive streaming using non-local information. Non-local information identifying usage statistics associated with a network service group can be collected and used to derive session parameters associated with each of a plurality of sessions within the network service group. The non-local information can also be updated and the updated non-local information can be used to dynamically adjust the session parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas J. Cloonan, Carol J. Ansley, Marcin Morgos, Stephen J. Kraiman, Daniel Torbet, Ian Wheelock, Jeffrey Joseph Howe, William Turner Hanks, Marek Bugajski
  • Method and system for transmitting content
    Patent number: 9197690
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems and methods for transmitting content to users. In some implementations, a system can include a session manager operable to initiate a unicast session with an end user device over a dedicated channel and to transmit a unicast multimedia stream associated with the unicast session. The unicast multimedia stream can include service identifier that is recognizable to the end user. The system can also include an interface operable to receive a transmission command that includes the end-user recognizable service identifier, and to transmit the content associated with the multimedia stream to the end user device in response to the content transmission command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Ran Oz, Adi Molkho
  • AUTOMATIC VIDEO COMPARISON OF THE OUTPUT OF A VIDEO DECODER
    Publication number: 20150334386
    Abstract: The automatic video comparison system for measuring the quality of decoded data described herein provides a method for measuring the quality of decoded data at the level of sub-units of a unit of data, for instance at the level of sub-blocks of a video frame. The system can therefore locate defects that may not otherwise be detected by an automated system that measures quality at the level of the entire frame. Processing encoded media is computationally intensive, thus the automatic video comparison system uses a distributed computing system in order to distribute the computations across many compute resources that are capable of operating in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2014
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Applicant: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre Brice, Gautam Babbar, Daniel Hillegass, Olga Malysheva
  • Set-top enclosure
    Patent number: D745480
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Carol Mathews, Yung-Chun Lun, Gary A. Dorfner, Chin-Tan Chang, Kevin T. Chang