Patents Assigned to Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
  • Patent number: 12206751
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described for content distribution. A first computing device may send a request for content to a second computing device. The first computing device may receive data that indicates a third computing device, and the first computing device may send a request for content to the third computing device. The third computing device may facilitate the first computing device receiving content from a fourth device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: James Panagos, Jeffrey Elsloo, John Benton
  • Patent number: 12206574
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting one or more physical communication link breaks are disclosed. An indication of a failure of one or more network layer links may be received. A physical layer link associated with the one or more network layer links may be determined based on the indication of the failure, and based on data indicating one or more associations between network layer links and physical layer links. A score may be determined indicating a probability that the physical layer link comprises a failure associated with a break in a physical communication link of the physical layer link based on determining a total quantity of the network layer links associated with the physical layer link, and based on a quantity of one or more network layer links associated with the indication of the failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Chuchu Wu, Patrick Carretas, Gulrukh Ahanger, Jacques Louvet, Fnu Venu Gopal Krishna Murthy
  • Patent number: 12201069
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a method that may include receiving a watering restriction for a location, detecting that a sprinkler controller is associated with a property within the location, and transmitting, to the sprinkler controller, the watering restriction. Additionally, a method may include receiving, at a sprinkler controller, a watering restriction for a location, the sprinkler controller associated with a property within the location, and adjusting, in response to the watering restriction, a sprinkling schedule for the property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Eng, Pat W. Goodwin, James A. Heffner, Kevin Nervick, Paul Vaillancourt
  • Patent number: 12206580
    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: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Chia-Chang Li, Mohamed Barache, Robert Lambardia
  • Patent number: 12206900
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for processing video. Encoded video data may be determined from uncompressed video data. A chrominance component for a portion of the encoded video data may be determined that references another portion of the encoded video data. A luma component of the portion of the encoded video data may be determined to correspond with the luma component of the corresponding portion of the uncompressed video data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Bay, David Leach
  • Patent number: 12200298
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of using video program viewing activity data as input to an aggregation engine built on the Hadoop MapReduce framework which calculates second-by-second video viewing activity for Linear, DVR, and VOD program level viewing including measuring trick play activity with results aggregated to the analyst's choice of program, program airing, channel, house attributes, device attributes, geographic area, demographic attributes, viewing date, or any combination of these fields, for each second of program content represented in the video program viewing data. The source data may be extracted from a database defined according to the Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. Media Measurement Data Model defined in “Audience Data Measurement Specification” as “OpenCable™ Specifications, Audience Measurement, Audience Measurement Data Specification” document OC-SP-AMD-I01-130502 or any similar format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Robert Alan Orlowski
  • Patent number: 12200736
    Abstract: A base station and/or a wireless device may communicate using a plurality of transmission beams. Multiple transmission beams may be used for transmission such that a message may be sent via different transmission beams. Multiple transmission beams may be used for sending multiple repetitions of the message or for sending different portions of the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Yunjung Yi, Hua Zhou, Jonghyun Park
  • Patent number: 12200515
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for verification of wireless network connection. A wireless local area network may comprise a client device and a gateway. A data connection, within the wireless local area network, between the client device and the gateway may be verified based on gateway identifiers provided to the client device via data communication channels internal and external the wireless local area network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Weston Schmidt, Michael Chen, Sreekant Kotay
  • Patent number: 12200745
    Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for, in some aspects, mitigating interference over a communication channel. In an aspect, a device can be configured to detect interference and to dynamically reconfigure to avoid interference. Such a device can be configured to receive content over various communication channels and can intelligently select a communication channel to avoid interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Albano, Christopher Bastian, David Urban, Ravi Kiran Gundu
  • Patent number: 12200747
    Abstract: Wireless communications for optimizing transmission power levels are described. Uplink transmission power levels for a wireless device may be dynamically adjusted based on conditions in a source cell and one or more neighboring cells. Transmission power levels may be increased or decreased gradually, and optimized power levels may be achieved, based on conditions in a source cell and one or more neighboring cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Karupaiah Rajendran
  • Patent number: 12199981
    Abstract: A computing device may request service from a service provider, and authorization to receive the service may be based, at least in part, on a network access device that is providing the computing device with network access. The service provider may request a value from the computing device, and the value may be based on address information of the computing device and the network access device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Yiu Leung Lee
  • Patent number: 12200276
    Abstract: An encoder may determine one or more encoding characteristics associated with a content segment of a content asset. The one or more encoding characteristics may comprise an estimated bitrate required for transmission of the content segment over a network. The one or more encoding characteristics associated with the content segment may be inserted into a portion of an other content segment, such as into a header of the other content segment. The content segment and the other content segment may be configured for linear transmission, such as using adaptive bitrate streaming. When the other content segment is received at a playback device prior to the content segment, the playback device may use the one or more encoding characteristics of the content segment embedded in the header of the other content segment to determine one or more playback characteristics of the content segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Giladi, Weidong Mao
  • Patent number: 12199728
    Abstract: Wireless communications are described. A wireless device and/or a base station may provide improved resource management. A base station may configure and/or transmit a beam failure recovery medium access control control element (BFR MAC CE) to a wireless device to activate one or more beam failure reference signal resources for beam failure of a downlink bandwidth part (BWP) of a cell. The wireless device may assess, based on receiving the BFR MAC CE, a radio link quality of one or more reference signals for beam failure detection of the downlink BWP of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ali Cagatay Cirik, Esmael Hejazi Dinan, Hua Zhou, Hyoungsuk Jeon, Alireza Babaei, Kyungmin Park
  • Patent number: 12200136
    Abstract: An encrypted message comprising a DNS request may be received from a client device. The DNS request may be decrypted to determine an IP address and a port associated with the client device. A security token may be determined based on the IP address and the port. A message comprising an indication of the DNS request and the security token may be sent to a DNS server. A reply comprising a payload and the security token may be received from the DNS server. Based on the security token, an indication of the payload of the reply may be sent to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Charles A. Helfinstine, Yiu Leung Lee, Joseph Crowe, Thomas Modayil Jacob
  • Patent number: 12200485
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for associating a device with a network, such as a wireless network. One method comprises storing network identifying information for a network in a database, receiving contact information from a computing device, determining whether the contact information is associated with the network identifying information in the database, and coupling the computing device with the network in response to determining that the contact information is associated with the network identifying information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Paluch, Arpit Mathur
  • Patent number: 12192585
    Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for reducing content storage space and network resources. A device, such as a network storage device, can receive a plurality of requests to record a content item with varying start times and end times. The network device can map the start time and end time of each request to a subscriber, premises, and/or device. The network device can determine the earliest of the start times associated with the content item and the latest of the end times associated with the content item. In an aspect, the network device can make a recording, starting at the earliest start time and ending at the latest end time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Hertzfeld, Mark McKelvey, Thomas Day
  • Patent number: 12192343
    Abstract: Groups of devices may be prevented from accessing content by encrypting the content. A plurality of secrets associated with a decryption key may be generated using a secret sharing algorithm. The plurality of secrets may be sent to one or more groups of devices to derive the decryption key. A non-restricted subset of the groups of devices may receive one or more secrets. Devices within the non-restricted subset of the groups may be able to use one or more secrets to determine the decryption key for the content. Groups that do not receive one or more secrets may be unable to determine the decryption key for the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Kyong Park
  • Patent number: 12192546
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for providing updated manifests for content items. The updated manifests may present one or more expected characteristics for a given one or more segments of the content items. The device receiving the content item may use the updated manifests to select a representation of the content item or portion thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Ryan Lee McMurray, Carl Veazey
  • Patent number: 12192207
    Abstract: An image of users of an application may be received from a computing device on a home network. The image may comprise representations of a group of users. Recognition techniques may be applied to the image. Unclaimed profiles may be created for users who are not recognized. The unclaimed profiles may be utilized by applications prior to being claimed by a user or group. Access to the unclaimed profiles may be controlled based on the identity of the network gateway used in the transmission of the image used as the basis for forming the profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Arpit Mathur
  • Patent number: 12192973
    Abstract: Wireless communications are described. Reduced transmission power time intervals may be employed in communications via one or more cells. A wireless device may receive an indication of measurement resources for one or more cells. The wireless device may transmit channel state information for one or more of the cells. Cross carrier scheduling may be employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Esmael Hejazi Dinan