Patents Assigned to ARRIS Enterprise, Inc.
  • Optical amplifier with self-adjusting gain based on reflected feedback
    Patent number: 9419408
    Abstract: An optical amplifier with network optimization techniques maximizes performance of a conventional optical amplifier with minimum user intervention. A circulator enables as much light as possible just below a stimulated Brillouin scattering threshold to be launched in to an optical fiber. An amount of reflected power directed by a circulator to a photo diode has a direct correlation to the quality of the received signal in a communications system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Venkatesh G. Mutalik, Kevin Orazietti
  • Optical combiner energy harvesting
    Patent number: 9413468
    Abstract: Powering an active/splitter and providing information to ONUs to cause adjustments to ONU operating wavelengths. An ONU may identify the port of a splitter to which the ONU is connected in order to make wavelength adjustments. Various techniques enable the ONU to identify from which port the ONU is receiving signals, such as a splitter that splits signals to ONUs in a cable network and signals to one or more ONUs the port to which it is connected. The splitter may lack electrical power and may perform the signal function by harvesting optical power from optical power provided to the splitter. In this manner, an active splitter may behave passively with respect to powering components in the absence of electrical power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel F. Schemmann, Venkatesh G. Mutalik
  • Adaptive streaming transcoder synchronization
    Patent number: 9414100
    Abstract: Techniques for synchronizing streams in an adaptive streaming environment include cross-chassis and intra-chassis synchronization of video and/or audio. In an adaptive streaming system that streams content in segments or chunks at varying levels of quality corresponding to different coding rates, implementations enable seamless switching between output streams. For example, synchronizing multiple output streams for switching between coded adaptive bit rate streams across multiple chassis involve enforcing decisions of a master encoder for inverse telecine, frame rate conversion, and segment boundary to slave encoders associated with the same group of output stream representations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Brenda Van Veldhuisen
  • Adaptive multicasting
    Patent number: 9413802
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for adaptively multicasting information from a server to a multicast group are provided. A multicast transmission along one or more paths of the transmission is changed as network conditions warrant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Joseph Howe
  • Adaptively delivering services to client devices over a plurality of networking technologies in a home network
    Patent number: 9407466
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses to adaptively deliver high-definition digital entertainment and telecommunications to client devices over various networking technologies. A gateway device receives one or more services and delivers the one or more services to one or more client devices, respectively, using a plurality of networking technologies. A controller determines which among the plurality of networking technologies to use to deliver the one or more services to the one or more client devices, respectively. To make such a determination, the controller can monitor one or more conditions of the plurality of networking technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Carol J. Ansley
  • Quality check identifying source of service issue
    Patent number: 9401840
    Abstract: A quality check of service received by a CPE device within a first customer premise is initiated, and if the results of the quality check indicate a problem with the service received by the CPE device, one or more CPE devices within one or more customer premises sharing upstream network resources with the first customer premise is identified and a quality check of service received by the one or more identified CPE devices can be conducted. If the results of the quality check of the one or more identified CPE devices indicate a problem with the service received by the CPE devices, a determination can be made that a problem exists at a network component upstream from the first customer premise and the other one or more customer premises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Varad V. Voshi, Harindranath P. Nair
  • Selection of thumbnails for video segments
    Patent number: 9398326
    Abstract: A method of identifying a representative image of a video stream is provided. Similarity between video frames of a primary video stream relative to video frames of a different secondary video stream having similar content is evaluated and a video frame from the primary video stream having a greatest extent of similarity relative to a video frame of the secondary video stream is identified. The identified video frame is selected as an image representative of the primary video stream and may be used as an informative thumbnail image for the primary video stream. A video processing electronic device and at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer program instructions stored thereon for performing the method are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Benedito J. Fonseca, Jr., Faisal Ishtiaq, Renxiang Li, Stephen P. Emeott, Alfonso Martinez Smith, Anthony J. Braskich
  • Data processing
    Patent number: 9396194
    Abstract: A system for processing correlated metadata is provided, the metadata being programmatic metadata relating to one or more episodes of a television show. Mappings, or correlations, between chunks of the metadata that originated from a particular data source and the metadata clusters are determined and displayed on a graphical user interface. Using this display, a user can detect inconsistencies in the correlated metadata. An inconsistency may be an incorrect mapping, the mapping of more than one of the metadata chunks that originated from the same data source to the same metadata cluster, or that one or more of the metadata chunks have not been mapped to a metadata cluster. The mappings can be edited to remove detected inconsistencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises , Inc.
    Inventors: Marcin Kaszynski, Grzegorz Kapkowski, Marek M. Stepniowski
  • Systems and methods for preventing energy leakage in communications systems
    Patent number: 9391819
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing interference between CATV devices at subscribers' premises.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Ayham Al-Banna
  • Frequency sub-band coding of digital signals
    Patent number: 9391724
    Abstract: A transmitter, using frequency sub-band coding, can output a plurality of narrowcast and/or broadcast signals to a plurality of sub-groups or nodes along a single optical link. The transmitter can output the plurality of signals as multiple slices of spectrum, wherein each slice of spectrum is designated for a particular sub-group or node. The transmitter can further instruct each receiver or node as to which slice of spectrum to use and at which frequency to output the associated signal information to its intended subscribers. Thus, a single transmitter can feed narrowcast information to multiple nodes or receivers along a single optical link. In embodiments, channels can be monitored and manipulated on a channel-by-channel basis, and channels delivered using different network solutions can be combined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Marcel F. Schemmann, Zoran Maricevic, David B. Bowler
  • Protection of control words employed by conditional access systems
    Patent number: 9385997
    Abstract: In accordance with a method for communicating a control word (CW) from a client such as an encryptor to a server such as the entitlement control message generator (ECMG) of a conditional access system (CAS), communication is established between the client and server over a secure connection. A control word to be encrypted is received by the client and encrypted using a first and second key. The first key is a global secret key (GSK) that is known to the client and the server without being communicated over the secure connection. The second key is a control word encryption key (CWEK) that is derived from a locally generated client nonce (CN) and a server nonce (SN) obtained from the server over the secure connection. The encrypted control word (ECW) is sent to the server over the secure connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: John I Okimoto, Alexander Medvinsky, Lawrence D Vince
  • Qualification of wireless network environments
    Patent number: 9386474
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for qualifying quality of service in data services delivered through wireless networks established by wireless access points (WAPs) are disclosed. A portable computing device can be used to execute a wireless network connectivity qualification application that can include functionality for testing and evaluating wireless network connectivity signals between various devices, including the WAP, in a particular local wireless network. Based on the test results, the application can generate recommendations for remedying any detected network issues. The recommendations can be determined from information stored locally on the portable computing device or in remote backend servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Carol J. Ansley, Harindranath P. Nair, Vishal Dhruv, Elaine May
  • System, method and computer readable medium for providing media stream fragments
    Patent number: 9386056
    Abstract: A method for providing on demand streaming media to a user device, the method includes: receiving, at a streaming device, a request to stream a certain media stream to a user device; wherein the streaming device is coupled to multiple user devices over a network and is adapted to concurrently transmit multiple media streams to the multiple user devices; obtaining media stream fragments that belong to the certain media stream by the streaming device and from multiple distribution devices; wherein the streaming device and the multiple distribution devices form a high bandwidth media distribution peer to peer network; wherein the streaming device is prevented from uploading media stream fragments to any distribution device; and streaming to the user device the certain media stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Asaf Atzmon, Ran Oz
  • Mobile communication device using android framework to facilitate handover of on-hold session between fixed packet network and cellular network
    Patent number: 9386482
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus can be used to provide handover of on-hold sessions in converged networks. In various example implementations, an on-hold session between a mobile communication device having functionality that can be implemented in various layers of Android framework, and a fixed packet network-connected peer CPE can be handed over from a fixed packet domain to a cellular domain, and vice versa. In various example implementations, an on-hold session between a mobile communication device and a PSTN-connected peer CPE can be handed over from a fixed packet domain to a cellular domain, and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Shi Jin Chen, John Randolph Bestermann, Tarun Chugh
  • Display of presentation elements
    Patent number: 9386357
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for displaying information relating to a portion of a multimedia presentation. A progress bar is provided and displayed. A length of the progress bar is representative of a duration of the multimedia presentation. A user selects a first and a second point in the multimedia presentation, thereby defining a portion of the presentation. Depending on the selection, one or more communications (e.g., comments, online postings, etc.) may be identified. Each of these communications may have been composed in relation to at least a point of the multimedia presentation that is within the defined portion. Information depending on those identified communications may then be displayed to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Santosh S. Basapur, Young S. Lee, Shirley A. Chaysinh, Hiren M. Mandalia, Ashley B. Novak, Narayanan Venkitaraman
  • Burst efficient fast program acquisition
    Patent number: 9386347
    Abstract: Various methods, systems, and apparatuses can be used to perform burst efficient fast program acquisition. In some implementations, a burst efficient fast program acquisition system can operate to remove unused B-frame thereby reducing the bandwidth required for a fast burst. In other implementations, the burst efficient fast program acquisition system can decode the fast burst, identify the video frames needed for reassembly, and encode a truncated group of frames for fast burst transmission. A burst efficient fast program acquisition system can also use pre-calculated streamlined burst fast burst in conjunction with program prediction methods such as adjacent program and frequently viewed program thereby further reducing the latency associated with IPTV program acquisitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Francis J. O'Keeffe
  • Cooperative transcoding to multiple streams
    Patent number: 9386267
    Abstract: This disclosure describes cooperatively transcoding an input signal to one or more output signals. The software and/or hardware logic modules are designed to work cooperatively in ways that can reduce the number and/or complexity of logic modules implementing a plurality of related transcodings of signal formats. By advantageously determining dependencies and sub-functions in transcoding an input stream to multiple output streams, hardware and/or software logic can be reduced. Reduced logic to implement multi-format transcoding improves the costs and/or capacity of systems for transcoding large numbers of streams and signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Santhana Chari
  • Telestration system for command processing
    Patent number: 9384217
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method detects a user input for a telestration on an image being displayed on a display device and determines a plurality of image portions of the image based on the telestration. The plurality of image portions are determined by a boundary around each image portion based on the telestration. The method then determines a set of tags for the plurality of image portions. The set of tags are determined based on image recognition of content in the plurality of image portions. An operator is determined based on the telestration where the operator characterizes an operation to perform for the plurality of image portions. The method determines a search query based on applying the operator to the set of tags and causes a search to be performed using the search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramy S. Ayoub, Swee M. Mok
  • Client set-top box enclosure
    Patent number: D760670
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith E. Sibley, Jamie J. Swift, Christopher S. Vidak
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D764485
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Henrik Lindmark, Markus Lindmark