Patents Assigned to COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATION, LLC
  • Methods and systems for evaluating communications
    Patent number: 11356374
    Abstract: Network traffic, such as packets addressed to a user device and/or a location, may be filtered/segregated to ensure that the user device and/or the location receives services for which they are subscribed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: John Bevilacqua, Jason Combs
  • Dynamic loop detection and suppression
    Patent number: 11349760
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for effectively managing and maintaining a communication network by monitoring communications to detect a loop condition, and effectively route the communication to one or more destinations known to reduce or eliminate the occurrence of a looping condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Chia-Chang Li, Mohamed Barache, Robert Lambardia
  • Systems and methods for improved content accessibility scoring
    Patent number: 11350166
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods and systems for improved accessibility scoring for content items. A predicted accessibility score may be based on a plurality of multimodal features present within a content item. The plurality of multimodal features may include video features (e.g., based on video/image analysis), audio features (e.g., based on audio analysis), text-based features (e.g., based on closed-captioning analysis), features indicated by metadata (e.g., duration, genre, etc.), a combination thereof, and/or the like. A predicted accessibility score for a content item may indicate how accessible the content item may be for persons who are visually impaired, hearing impaired, cognitively impaired, etc., as well as for persons who desire to view content that requires less visual attention and/or audio attention as the case may be.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ehsan Younessian, Faisal Ishtiaq
  • System and method for wireless intercommunication and power delivery
    Patent number: 11349354
    Abstract: A wireless signal may supply a wireless power signal to a device to power the device for an authentication. If the device is authenticated, the wireless signal may be adjusted to provide power to the device. If the device is not authenticated, the wireless signal may be adjusted to avoid providing power to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Chen
  • Content delivery network server testing
    Patent number: 11349737
    Abstract: Described herein is a system and method for testing a computing device, such as a server, to minimize network impact. A computing device that is new or needs to be evaluated, such as an edge server, in a content delivery network may be determined and a sibling edge server which shares a common characteristic with the edge server may be selected. Requests received on the sibling edge server may be collected and filtered to determine a subset of the requests. The subset of the requests are transmitted to the edge server for processing and evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Chris Lemmons
  • Managing data
    Patent number: 11350149
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system are provided for binding application data associated with an application with content asset data associated with a content asset. In some embodiments, capacity or bandwidth for each of the application data and the content asset data may be allocated in accordance with one or more profiles. The one or more profiles may include horizontal aspects, vertical aspects, linear and non-linear aspects, and the like. In some embodiments, the binding may take place at a content provider location in accordance with early binding practices, at a central location in accordance with late binding practices, and/or at a user equipment device in accordance with user binding practices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Danial E. Holden
  • Scheduling resource allocation in wireless network
    Patent number: 11350434
    Abstract: Wireless communications are described. Cells may be grouped into a plurality of cell groups. A wireless device may determine that a secondary cell has an invalid scheduling request (SR) resource based on one or more conditions. The wireless device may send a preamble if the secondary cell has an invalid SR resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan
  • Content recording and group encryption
    Patent number: 11347830
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing group encryption are described. In certain methods, a content asset may be encrypted with an asset key. An account key may be determined. Using the account key, an encrypted content asset package may be generated. The asset key may make up at least a portion of the encrypted content asset package. The encrypted content asset package is decryptable with the account key. The encrypted content asset package and an identifier associated with the account key may be transmitted, for example to a playback device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Kyong Park
  • Content distribution network supporting popularity-based caching
    Patent number: 11343351
    Abstract: A content delivery network may provide content items to requesting devices using a popularity-based distribution hierarchy. A central analysis system may determine popularity data for a content item stored in a first caching device. The central analysis system may determine that a change in the popularity data is beyond a threshold value. The central analysis system may then transmit an instruction to move the content item from the first caching device to a second caching device in a different tier of caching devices than the first caching device. The central analysis system may update a content index to indicate that the content item has been moved to the second caching device. A user device may be redirected to request the content item directly from the second caching device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Fliam, Kevin Christopher Flanagan, Gregory Allen Broome, Jason Burgess, Gabriel Commeau
  • Supplemental uplink selection using configuration information
    Patent number: 11343728
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A first base station may receive, from a second base station, parameters for a selection of an uplink of the cell. A handover to the selected uplink may be performed based on the parameters and a measurement associated with a signal of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Ali Cirik
  • Radio resource allocation for access link
    Patent number: 11343812
    Abstract: Wireless communication techniques are described. An access node/device may transmit, to another access node/device, data corresponding to a wireless device. The access node/device may transmit the data along with downlink resource information indicating a radio resource. The other access node/device may use the radio resource to transmit the data to the wireless device. The access node/device may transmit one or more preemption indications to one or more other communication devices to preempt any other transmissions in the radio resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Kyungmin Park, Esmael Dinan, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Ali Cirik, Kai Xu
  • Systems and methods for monitoring content consumption
    Patent number: 11341467
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for monitoring content consumption. A method may comprise determining, by a device, content accessed by one or more user devices. The method may comprise causing a distributed ledger record to be generated. The distributed ledger record may comprise an indication of the content. The distributed ledger record may be stored on a distributed ledger. The distributed ledger may comprise other records indicating content accessed by a plurality of other devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Abhijeet Vijay Mulye, Bernard Burg
  • Content-aware predictive bitrate ladder
    Patent number: 11343511
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses may encode a media content item based on metadata from previous encoding. The encoding may also generate encoding metadata, which may comprise a qualitative or quantitative characterization of the encoded media content item. A prediction engine may, based on this metadata, determine new encoding settings for the same or a different video resolution. The prediction engine may cause an encoded media content item to be stored and may cause encoding of the media content item using the new encoding settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Weidong Mao, Alexander Giladi, Alex Balk
  • Systems and methods for network device management
    Patent number: 11343697
    Abstract: Systems and methods for network device management are described. An indication of a failed network connection between a first user device and a second network device can be received. Using data from the first network device, the first user device, at least one second network device, and/or at least one second user device, one or more characteristics of the first network device and/or the at least one second network device can be determined. Modification of the determined one or more characteristics can be caused.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: COMCAST CABLE COMMUNICATIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Priore, Kevin Colflesh, Jason Warren
  • Beam configuration for secondary cells
    Patent number: 11343735
    Abstract: Procedures for using a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state in wireless communications are described. A base station may send one or more configuration parameters indicating a plurality of cells to be updated with a same TCI state. A wireless device may perform, via the plurality of cells and using one or more parameters associated with the TCI state, at least one of transmission or reception.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cirik, Esmael Dinan, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Kyungmin Park, Kai Xu
  • Power control for wireless communications
    Patent number: 11337163
    Abstract: Wireless communications may be used to support transmission power control. A reference signal may be mapped to a power control parameter set. A message to schedule a transmission may be received that indicates the power control parameter set. A transmission power for the scheduled transmission may be determined based on the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cirik, Esmael Dinan, Yunjung Yi, Hua Zhou, Alireza Babaei, Youngwoo Kwak, Kyungmin Park
  • Methods and systems for communicating relevant content
    Patent number: 11336744
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for efficient communication of content. A user device may request content from a content device. The content device may determine a browsing context of the user device. A user model based on machine learning may be determined based on the browsing context. The user model may be used to predicted additional content that might be requested by the user device. The additional content or a portion thereof may be sent to the user device in parallel with the originally requested content. As the user device rejects, accepts, or further requests the additional content, the user model may be further refined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Benjamin E. Greenberg
  • Beam failure recovery request transmission
    Patent number: 11337265
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may transmit an indication of a type of a beam failure recovery request. A wireless device may detect a beam failure and transmit a beam failure recovery requested based on the type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Hua Zhou, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Kyungmin Park, Alireza Babaei
  • Wireless device transmission timing
    Patent number: 11337161
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for wireless communications. A wireless device may transmit an uplink signal via a cell of a cell group. Transmission timing of the uplink signal may be based on a cell of the cell group and a timing adjustment associated with a different cell group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Dinan
  • Capsule
    Patent number: D953856
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ellen Tave Glassman, Min Chul Song, Richard William Pfeiffer, Michael Boylan