Abstract: A command services manager of a control device can receive a command from a user interface device and provide for the storing and sharing of the command with one or more service providers so as to provide an improved user experience. Media service providers can register with a network resource associated with the command services manager. The command can be encrypted and stored locally at the control device or remotely at a network resource and be sent to a registered media service provider so that the media service provider can provide improved search responses and/or customize the interaction with the user, recommendation of content availability from other service providers, etc. The command services manager can also receive notifications from the media service provider and provide the notifications to the user, for example, notifications indicative of the success or failure of a command.

Abstract: A PON system that includes an optical line terminal that processes TCP ACK packets in a manner to reduce the bandwidth used.

Abstract: A fully homomorphic white-box implementation of one or more cryptographic operations is presented. This method allows construction of white-box implementations from general-purpose code without necessitating specialized knowledge in cryptography, and with minimal impact to the processing and memory requirements for non-white-box implementations. This method and the techniques that use it are ideally suited for securing “math heavy” implementations, such as codecs, that currently do not benefit from white-box security because of memory or processing concerns. Further, the fully homomorphic white-box construction can produce a white-box implementation from general purpose program code, such as C or C++.

Abstract: A media device includes: a microphone for recording a television; a memory having the important content; and a processor to: instruct the microphone to record audio data while the television is operating in a primary mode and store in the memory; instruct the television to switch operation from the primary mode to an important content mode; provide the important content to the television; subsequently instruct the television to switch from the important content mode to the primary mode using a primary protocol; instruct the microphone to record subsequent audio data; determine whether the television switched from the important content mode to the primary mode based on the initial audio data and the subsequent audio data; and instruct the television to switch from the important content mode to the primary mode using a secondary protocol when it is determined that the television has not switched.

Abstract: A multi-modal portal system provides an authorization prior to establishing a visual interface connection between a support user or caller and a client user or receiving party. Once the caller is authorized, the caller is permitted to drop-in such that a visual interface connection is established with the receiving party. The authorization can be based on a profile configuration that indicates whether the caller has the credentials required for the visual interface. The authorization can require that a notification be sent to a trusted user or primary contact or the caller can be associated with a profile configuration that allows for a pre-authorization without requiring the notification. Also, security is enhanced by validating network devices and providing resiliency in data paths between network devices and data aggregators.

Abstract: A user environment is controlled and altered based on one or more user conditions received from a biometric tracking services associated with a biometric device of a user. A user can set up a user profile that includes one or more user preferences including a biometric parameter, an asset parameter, a biometric service parameter and/or a location parameter. Based on the user preferences a user device and/or an access point device can control the user environment by altering one or more assets of one or more network devices specified by any one or more user preferences. The asset state of an asset can be altered based on one or more user conditions associated with a biometric parameter such that the user environment is automatically altered based on monitoring the one or more user conditions so as to provide the user an enhanced user environment experience.

Abstract: A method of partitioning in video coding for JVET, comprising representing a JVET coding tree unit as a root node in a quadtree plus binary tree (QTBT structure that can have quadtree or binary partitioning of the root node and quadtree or binary trees branching from each of the leaf nodes. The partitioning at any depth can use asymmetric binary partitioning to split a child node represented by a leaf node into two child coding units of unequal size, representing the two child coding units as leaf nodes in a binary tree branching from the parent leaf node and coding the child coding units represented by final leaf nodes of the binary tree with JVET. Disclosed is a generalized method of partitioning a block, either square or rectangular, which leads to more flexible block sizes with possible higher coding efficiency.

Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for an internal reflection cancelling full duplex node. The internal reflection cancelling full duplex node is a multi-port full duplex node configured for generating, splitting, and transmitting a downstream signal out a plurality of ports, configured for receiving multiple upstream signals, one through each of the ports, and configured for cancelling reflections of the downstream signal from the ports.

Abstract: A system for queuing flows to channels.

Abstract: A sampling filter process is provided for scalable video coding. The process provides for re-sampling using video data obtained from an encoder or decoder process of a base layer (BL) in a multi-layer system using adaptive phase shifting to improve quality in Scalable High efficiency Video Coding (SHVC). In order to compensate for phase offsets introduced by downsampling an appropriate phase offset adjustment is made for upsampling in SHVC with an appropriate offset included for proper luma/chroma color space positions. In one approach the luma/chroma phase offset is specified and a filter is selected to apply the appropriate phase change.

Abstract: Nodes, amplifiers, and taps for an improved hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network and methods for managing signals in an improved HFC network are shown and disclosed. The method may include receiving, at a node, a downstream optical signal in a higher-frequency band and a lower-frequency band separated from the higher-frequency band. The method may additionally include amplifying, at the node, the lower-frequency band by a magnitude different than that of the higher-frequency band. The method may further include combining, at the node, the higher-frequency band and the lower-frequency band into an output signal after the lower-frequency band has been amplified.

Abstract: A method of decoding a bitstream comprising decoding the bitstream into color values and metadata items indicating information about adaptive post-processing operations performed by a decoder, performing high dynamic range (HDR) adaptation operations on the color values based on the metadata items, and performing fixed post-processing operations to reconstruct an HDR video from the color values, wherein the HIDR adaptation operations convert color values into a format expected by the fixed post-processing operations.

Abstract: A method of encoding a digital video data applies adaptive pre-processing to data representing high dynamic range (HDR) and/or wide color gamut (WCG) image data prior to encoding and complementary post-processing to the data after decoding in order to allow at least partial reproduction of the HDR and/or WCG data. The example methods apply one or more color space conversions, and a perceptual transfer functions to the data prior to quantization. The example methods apply inverse perceptual transfer functions and inverse color space conversions after decoding to recover the HDR and/or WCG data. The transfer functions are adaptive so that different transfer functions may be applied to video data sets including different groups of frames, frames or processing windows in a single frame. Information on the data set and information on the applied transfer function is passed as metadata from the encoder to the decoder.

Abstract: A method, an electronic device or customer-premise equipment, and a computer readable medium are disclosed for estimating a sound source. The method includes detecting, on an electronic device, voice data from a space; calculating, on the electronic device, an estimated voice source location from the detected voice data; detecting, on the electronic device, wireless location data from a positioning system within the space; calculating, on the electronic device, a probability of a user within one or more regions from the calculated estimated voice source location and the detected wireless location data, the one or more regions being regions of a plurality of regions within the space; and steering, from the electronic device, a microphone array for voice detection toward the one or more regions having the probability of the user within the one or more regions.

Abstract: A method of decoding JVET video includes receiving a bitstream and calculating a final planar prediction in planar mode to predict pixel values for a current coding block. The final planar prediction may rely on using unequal weights applied to each of a horizontal and vertical predictor, where such predictors may be generated by interpolating neighboring pixels for each predicted pixel within a coding block. The computation may be made more accurate by deriving a value for a bottom right neighboring pixel.

Abstract: A control device connected to a media device can autonomously return the active source input of the media device to a previously selected active source input. Any client device within a network may be able to switch the active source input of the media device to the source input associated with the device so as to deliver media content to the media device. Tor return to the previous active source input generally requires user intervention. However, the control device can store the previous active source input of the media device and then, when the media content is terminated or the client device disconnects from the media device, transmit a source input command that causes the media device to cycle through the plurality of source inputs associated with the media device until the active source input is the previous source input without requiring any user intervention.

Abstract: A method of configuring a client device at a customer premises is provided. An electronic message is received from a vendor of a client device with customer premise equipment (CPE) at the customer premises or a portable communication device. The electronic message provides configuration information for the client device. The configuration information includes a password and an access name of a service for use in configuring the client device via communications with a remote configuration server. The service is made available at the customer premises via the CPE or the communication device so that the client device automatically pairs to the service and is authenticated with the password to the configuration server via Internet connectivity capability of the CPE or portable communication device so that the client device may be configured. The client device has firmware preprogramed to automatically and securely access the service, when detected, at the customer premises.

Abstract: A system and method for regenerating high dynamic range (HDR) video data from encoded video data, extracts, from the encoded video data, a self-referential metadata structure specifying a video data reshaping transfer function. The video data reshaping transfer function is regenerated using data from the metadata structure and the extracted reshaping transfer function is used to generate the HDR video data by applying decoded video data values to the reshaping transfer function.

Abstract: Systems and methods for managing a limited number of classifiers implemented on an edge device of a DOCSIS network, such as a CMTS, where the classifiers are used to identify data communicated to and from a client device, and which is eligible for low latency service by the edge device.

Abstract: A method is provided for encoding a digital video to improve perceptual quality. The method includes receiving a digital video at a video encoder, providing a perceptual quantizer function defined by P ? Q ? ( L ) = ( c 1 + c 2 ? L m 1 1 + c 3 ? L m 1 ) m 2 , wherein L is a luminance value, c1, c2, c3, and m1 are parameters with fixed values, and m2 is a parameter with a variable value, adapting the perceptual quantizer function by adjusting the value of the m2 parameter based on different luminance value ranges found within a coding level of the digital video, encoding the digital video into a bitstream using, in part, the perceptual quantizer function, transmitting the bitstream to a decoder, and transmitting the value of the m2 parameter to the decoder for each luminance value range in the coding level.