Patents Assigned to Cox Communication, Inc.
  • Patent number: 10121180
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to curation of cloud services that can be included a cloud solution tailored to an organization or an environment thereof. In one aspect, the cloud services can include software applications, professional services, managed network services, and/or infrastructure services. In one aspect, curation of a cloud service can be based on fitness of the cloud service for the organization or the environment thereof. In another aspect, the curation of certain cloud services can be refined based on feedback associated with such services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Cox Communication, Inc.
    Inventors: Dipan Patel, Lisa Maree Woods, Jeffrey W. Thorburn
  • Patent number: 9866485
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for rerouting network traffic flows based on selection criteria are provided. Routers forming data flow paths between network devices in a network may be polled. In response to the poll, network status information may be received from the routers. Based at least in part on the received status information, a rerouting event associated with a first data flow over a first data flow path may be received. Based on one or more selection criteria, a second data flow path may be selected for the first data flow. The first data flow may then be rerouted over the second data flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Cox Communication, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey L. Finkelstein
  • Patent number: 9615120
    Abstract: Systems and methods for associating additional content with broadband content are provided. A pairing between a customer premise device configured to output broadband content and a customer device may be identified by a service provider system. Information associated with content output by the customer premise device may be received by the service provider system from the customer premise device. Based at least in part upon an evaluation of the received information, the service provider system may identify additional content to be communicated to the customer device. The service provider system may then facilitate communication of the additional content to the customer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Cox Communication, Inc.
    Inventor: Roy Roger Toney, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8988192
    Abstract: A remote control device for providing individualized access control. The remote control device includes an interface for accepting input from a user and forwarding a signal corresponding the to the input from the user to a conditional access device, a biometric scanner, coupled to the remote device, for reading a biometric characteristic of a user and a processor, coupled to the interface, for generating a signal associated with the reading of the biometric characteristic of the user that is transmitted to the conditional access device for analysis to determine a function corresponding to the input from the user to execute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Cox Communication, Inc.
    Inventor: John Kelly King
  • Publication number: 20110287746
    Abstract: Notification of missed voice calls directed to non-responsive called party devices in a communication network is provided. An incoming call directed to a called party device, when the called party device is in a non-responsive state, are received at a messaging platform. Call data associated with the call is stored at the messaging platform. The stored call data is utilized to generate a notification of the call. The notification of the call is sent from the messaging platform to the called party device or another device associated with the called party. The notification may include an identification of the calling party and a date and time when the call was made.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2010
    Publication date: November 24, 2011
    Applicant: Cox Communication, Inc.
    Inventors: Radhakrishnan Gopinath, David Darrell Nesbitt
  • Patent number: 7853496
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for maintaining building serviceability information for geographic locations. The disclosed systems and methods may include forming a future market in which the product developments lines are equated to stocks. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include determining participants in a trading session of the future market and setting rules governing how the trading session in the future market will operate. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods may include opening the trading session for the participants, closing the trading session for trading and evaluating market session trends and participant purchases to determine the priority of a product line in relation to other product lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2010
    Assignee: Cox Communication, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Poffenberger, Scott C. Hightower, Ray H. Starbird