Patents Assigned to Cox Communications
  • Recording third party content to a primary service provider digital video recorder or other storage medium
    Patent number: 9569624
    Abstract: Recording of third party content on recording systems of a primary service provider is provided. Third party service providers may provide information about offered video content to a primary content service provider. The primary service provider may allow its customers/subscribers to access the third party content through the systems of the primary service provider. Upon navigation to a desired third party content item, a customer/subscriber may request a recording of the third party content. The third party content may be passed to the primary service provider for recording on one or more storage systems associated with the primary service provider, and the recorded content may subsequently be played back by the customer/subscriber in the same manner as play back of content recorded from the primary service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Yousef Wasef Nijim, Len Barlik, Jay Paul Langa, James Alan Strothmann
  • Intelligent caching of content items
    Patent number: 9563717
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for intelligent caching of content items are provided. A content item may be received by a caching device from a content provider based at least in part on a first request from a user. The caching device may determine a content viewing profile. The caching device may direct storage of the received content item for later retrieval. Additionally, the caching device may provide the stored content item to the user in response to a second request for the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Edgar V. Shrum, Jr., John Civiletto
  • System, method and device for sharing of playlists of authorized content with other users
    Patent number: 9563703
    Abstract: A system, method and device for sharing of playlists of authorized content with other users. A user interface is displayed on a media viewing device for creating a playlist of content. The playlist is generated by a user via the user interface and a name is associated with the playlist of content. The playlist is stored using the name. Parameters for sharing the playlist with contacts of the user are configured. At a viewing device of a contact, notification of a playlist created by a user is received. Privileges of the contact associated with content identified in the playlist are determined. Action is taken, by the contact, regarding content identified in the playlist created by the user based on the determined privileges of the contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Yousef Wasef Nijim, Terry Douglas Lee
  • Network-based content storage
    Patent number: 9560389
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for network-based storage of requested content are provided. A request for a content item may be received by a content storage device from a customer. Portions of the content item may be extracted from the content item. The content storage device may store the extracted portions of the content item specific to the customer. Additionally, the remainder of the content item may be stored by the content storage device separately from the stored extracted portion. The content item may be reconstructed for the customer using the extracted portions of the content item specific to the customer and the remainder of the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: John Civiletto, Edgar V. Shrum, Jr., Francisco Gonzalez, Louise Mary Wasilewski
  • Systems, methods, and apparatus for delivering content
    Patent number: 9554169
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for delivering content are provided. A request for desired content may be received by a content management server from a customer device associated with a customer. The content management server may include one or more computers. Additionally, the content management server may determine whether the customer device is in communication with one or more additional devices associated with the customer. Based at least in part upon the communication determination, the content management server may determine whether the customer device is located within a subscription area for the customer. Based at least in part upon the determination of whether the customer device is located within the subscription area, the content management server may determine access rights to the desired content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2017
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Edgar V. Shrum, Jr., Francisco Gonzalez, John Civiletto, Steve Watkins
  • Assigning to a Call a Unique Key Associated with Caller Specific Data for Retrieving Data From a Database
    Publication number: 20160373580
    Abstract: Caller specific information is linked to a call using a key for database retrieval of caller specific data. A pool of rolling Automatic Number Identification (ANI) codes is maintained. A call is received at a rolling ANI device. A rolling ANI is assigned to the call. The assigned rolling ANI is provided in a field identifying the call. The call and the assigned rolling ANI in the field identifying the call is routed to a call handler. A voice path and data associated with the call is received at the call handler. The data is parsed to determine a rolling ANI associated with the call. Caller specific information is obtained from a database record in a database identified by the rolling ANI. The obtained caller specific information is used to process the call seamlessly without prompting the caller for information in the database record associated with the rolling ANI.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Applicant: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Louis Joseph Cutajar
  • Customized user interface generation in a video on demand environment
    Patent number: 9503789
    Abstract: A method for delivering customized navigation or interactive program guide imagery to a user by digitally splicing bitstreams bearing graphics or video imagery and bitstreams bearing navigation or IPG imagery. The resulting combined bitstream is delivered to a user or viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Christopher W. B. Goode
  • Systems and Methods of Enhanced Check in Technical Documents
    Publication number: 20160335245
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing an improved spell check including identifying one or more excluded document sections and performing the document check function on the document except for the one or more excluded document sections. The excluded document sections may be delineated in a number of ways.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Clark Whitten, John Gordon Hood, Ronald William Noseworthy
  • Systems and Methods of Time Shifted Rewind
    Publication number: 20160337688
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for utilizing idle DVR content tuners including determining at least one content tuner is available, selecting the content tuner and tuning the at least one available tuner to a specified channel where the specified channel is determined at least in part by one or more stored user preferences and recording one or more content items on the selected channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2015
    Publication date: November 17, 2016
    Applicant: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Malcolm Eruteya, Robert Clark Whitten
  • Systems and methods of wavelength division multiplex passive optical networking
    Patent number: 9497520
    Abstract: Example embodiments of a time division duplex (TDD) Wavelength Division Multiplex Passive Optical Network (WDM PON) architecture using passive optical splitters are disclosed herein. The disclosed TDD WDM PON includes fixed wavelength optical transmitters in an Optical Line Termination system with tunable receiver colorless Optical Network Units (ONUs) that reuse the downstream CW light to carry upstream data. The same wavelength may be used for downstream and upstream transmissions on a single fiber in the ODN. In this architecture, the number of ONUs may be greater than the number of transmitters at the OLT, allowing for a highly scalable system with capacity for growth. An example embodiment of the disclosed system uses Arrayed Waveguide Grating (AWG) or WDM filters at the OLT and a passive optical splitter in the field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Yuxin Dai
  • Technical electronic discovery action model
    Patent number: 9495412
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide for an end-to-end system and method for identifying custodians, preserving, collecting, processing, reviewing, analyzing, producing, presenting, and dispositioning data responsive to a legal discovery request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2016
    Assignee: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Steve Thomas Williams, Keith Entwistle, Kristen Weathersby
  • Wireless set-top box pairing and quality of service user interface
    Patent number: 9491504
    Abstract: A method and system for monitoring the quality of the content is provided. The method and system may identify, in real time, whether the quality of the content has fallen below a predetermined threshold. Once the quality of the content has fallen below a predetermined threshold, the system may identify other delivery mechanisms (e.g., connectivity options and/or other sources) to deliver the content at a lower constant bitrate. Subsequently, the system may check for higher quality content and provide the user with options to switch to the other source. Accordingly, the method and system identifies the available video quality options for a specific content item, which may be provided by a plurality of different content sources, and provides the user with the ability to switch to another content source with minimal user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Yousef Wasef Nijim, James Alan Strothmann, Jay Paul Langa, Anant Patil
  • Entitlement validation and quality control of content in a cloud-enabled network-based digital video recorder
    Patent number: 9479805
    Abstract: This disclosure describes system and methods related to entitlement validation and quality control of content in a cloud-enabled network-based digital video recording system. In some embodiments, whether a record event exists may be determined. The record event may indicate an entitlement check associated with a content asset needs to be completed. A determination may be made as to whether a user account is authorized to access the content asset. An asset record associated with the content asset may be modified to prevent future recording of the content asset. A record to delete the content asset may be generated in association with the user account in response to determining the user account is not authorized to access the content asset. The record event may be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Alan Rothschild, Slavisha Karach
  • Systems and methods for facilitating purchases of broadband content and services
    Patent number: 9462312
    Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating purchases of broadband content and services are provided. A request to purchase broadband content or a broadband service may be received by a server from a customer device. A transaction associated with the received purchase request may be completed in real-time. Based upon the completion of the transaction, one of (i) access rights associated with the broadband content or (ii) a feature set associated with the broadband service may be altered. The requested broadband content or broadband service is then made available to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Alan Rothschild, Julius Bert Bagley
  • Multi-modal digital terminal adapter
    Patent number: 9462320
    Abstract: A multi-modal digital terminal adapter (DTA), and associated methods and computer-readable media, are disclosed for determining a current mode of operation of the DTA, selectively activating and/or deactivating one or more receiving modules based at least in part on the current mode of operation, and routing an incoming signal to one or more receiving modules based at least in part on one or more characteristics of the signal to initiate processing of the signal in accordance with the current mode of operation for the multi-modal DTA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Cox Communications
    Inventor: Jeff Finkelstein
  • System and Method of Extending Time Division Passive Optical Network Services to Plastic Optical Fiber in the Home
    Publication number: 20160277112
    Abstract: A system (87; FIG. 2) is disclosed to provide a Time Division Multiple Access Passive Optical Network to a Plastic Optical Fiber to be used in both single-family home networks and in multiple dwelling units. The system (87) extends the fiber to the home fiber network infrastructure from existing fiber access networks to fiber in the home for home networking. A plastic optical fiber converter (48; FIG. 4) associated with an optical network terminal (56; FIG. 6) receives a downstream optical signal (15; FIG. 3) that is converted into an electrical signal (61; FIG. 6). The converter (48) within the optical network terminal (56) modulates Ethernet frames contained within the electrical signal and converts the frames into optical signals (71,72; FIG. 6) with advanced modulations that are then transmitted via the plastic optical fiber within the home network (124; FIG. 2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Yuxin Dai
  • Systems and Methods of Generalized DOCSIS Provisioning over Passive Optical Network
    Publication number: 20160277141
    Abstract: In example embodiments of the systems and methods of generalized DOCSIS provisioning over Passive Optical Network disclosed herein, DOSCIS OSS management is mapped to TDM PON management via a DOCSIS Management Proxy (DMP). A DMP communicates with the TDM PON management plane as a proxy of the DOCSIS OSS management plane. In an example embodiment, DOCSIS services provisioning, Quality of Service (QOS), among other services are translated to the TDM PON management plane via DMP. The PON management plane then communicates to the PON control plane for both DOCSIS defined services and native TDM PON services such that resource conflicts are avoided and the PON optical layer fault management is supported. DMP is platform independent, as it applies to any TDM PON such as GPON, EPON, 10GEPON, and XGPON1, among others.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Applicant: COX COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Yuxin Dai
  • Managed access to content and services
    Patent number: 9450934
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relates to managed access to content and/or services in a network environment. In certain aspects, tokens or other artifacts can be utilized for authentication and authorization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Alan Rothschild, Edgar V. Shrum, Muhammad Asif Raza, Jr., Richard M. Thomas
  • HYBRID FIBER MILLIMETER WAVE WIRELESS SYSTEM FOR MULTI-GIGABIT CONNECTIVITY
    Publication number: 20160269127
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include methods, devices and systems for a millimeter wave (MMW) last mile delivery system. A multi-wavelength fiber link may be provided from a collector terminal node area to a central office. One or more streams of data may be wirelessly transmitted from the collector terminal node area to user equipment. Based at least in part on the one or more streams of data, multi-gigabit Ethernet may then be provided to the user equipment utilizing an analog or digital modulation scheme over one or more channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: Cox Communications, Inc
    Inventor: HARJINDER GHUMAN
  • Assigning to a call a unique key associated with caller specific data for retrieving data from a database
    Patent number: 9438712
    Abstract: Caller specific information is linked to a call using a key for database retrieval of caller specific data. A pool of rolling Automatic Number Identification (ANI) codes is maintained. A call is received at a rolling ANI device. A rolling ANI is assigned to the call. The assigned rolling ANI is provided in a field identifying the call. The call and the assigned rolling ANI in the field identifying the call is routed to a call handler. A voice path and data associated with the call is received at the call handler. The data is parsed to determine a rolling ANI associated with the call. Caller specific information is obtained from a database record in a database identified by the rolling ANI. The obtained caller specific information is used to process the call seamlessly without prompting the caller for information in the database record associated with the rolling ANI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.
    Inventor: Louis Joseph Cutajar