Patents by Inventor Derek Alan Winters

Derek Alan Winters has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10069632
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the remote signing of images created at a signing client. An image can be output from a signing client to a remote signing server, and the signing server can identify, from information carried by the image, one or more signatures needed by the image and/or encoding algorithm(s) to be applied to the image. The signing server can encode the image using the requested encoding algorithm(s) and/or can add requested signature(s) to the image, and the signing server can output the signed image to one or more designated targets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Shi Jin Chen, Derek Alan Winters
  • Patent number: 10069733
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate a dynamic control of a pause frame setting at a network device. A network node may monitor for and detect a link or speed change occurring at an interface. When a link or speed change is detected, the network node may take an inventory of one or more links at an associated switch. If at least one of the one or more links are high speed links, the network node may disable the output of pause frames from the network node. If none of the one or more links are high speed links, the network node may enable the output of pause frames from the network node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Derek Alan Winters, Peter Sadrozinski
  • Patent number: 9807148
    Abstract: This disclosure provides for automatically changing the mode of download of a download manager in a customer premise equipment device. In some implementations, the download manager can send a timeout option to a TFTP server and automatically change the mode of download based on whether a timeout option acknowledgement is received. The download manager can include a first control attribute to enable or disable automatic mode changes and/or a second control attribute to set the initial download mode of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventor: Derek Alan Winters
  • Publication number: 20170063707
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate a dynamic control of a pause frame setting at a network device. A network node may monitor for and detect a link or speed change occurring at an interface. When a link or speed change is detected, the network node may take an inventory of one or more links at an associated switch. If at least one of the one or more links are high speed links, the network node may disable the output of pause frames from the network node. If none of the one or more links are high speed links, the network node may enable the output of pause frames from the network node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Derek Alan Winters, Peter Sadrozinski
  • Patent number: 9584850
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus can provide channel scanning. In various examples, a channel scanning module can instruct scanning of multiple channels within a wideband frequency range by assigning channels to demodulators to attempt to lock onto a signal at the assigned channel. In other examples, a channel scanning module can instruct scanning for downstream channels by assigning channels to multiple narrowband tuners and multiple demodulators to attempt to lock onto a signal on the assigned channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Punit Shah, Derek Alan Winters
  • Patent number: 9479827
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to distinguish between data signals and video signals based upon interleaver depths associated with the signals. A CPE device can identify an interleaver depth associated with a signal and can make the determination that the signal is a video signal when the interleaver depth is outside of a predetermined range, the predetermined range being based on interleaver depths that are expected for a data signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Derek Alan Winters
  • Publication number: 20160142759
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus can provide channel scanning. In various examples, a channel scanning module can instruct scanning of multiple channels within a wideband frequency range by assigning channels to demodulators to attempt to lock onto a signal at the assigned channel. In other examples, a channel scanning module can instruct scanning for downstream channels by assigning channels to multiple narrowband tuners and multiple demodulators to attempt to lock onto a signal on the assigned channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Punit Shah, Derek Alan Winters
  • Publication number: 20160112756
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to distinguish between data signals and video signals based upon interleaver depths associated with the signals. A CPE device can identify an interleaver depth associated with a signal and can make the determination that the signal is a video signal when the interleaver depth is outside of a predetermined range, the predetermined range being based on interleaver depths that are expected for a data signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventor: Derek Alan Winters
  • Patent number: 9277161
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus can provide channel scanning. In various examples, a channel scanning module can instruct scanning of multiple channels within a wideband frequency range by assigning channels to demodulators to attempt to lock onto a signal at the assigned channel. In other examples, a channel scanning module can instruct scanning for downstream channels by assigning channels to multiple narrowband tuners and multiple demodulators to attempt to lock onto a signal on the assigned channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Punit Shah, Derek Alan Winters
  • Publication number: 20150365466
    Abstract: This disclosure provides for automatically changing the mode of download of a download manager in a customer premise equipment device. In some implementations, the download manager can send a timeout option to a TFTP server and automatically change the mode of download based on whether a timeout option acknowledgement is received. The download manager can include a first control attribute to enable or disable automatic mode changes and/or a second control attribute to set the initial download mode of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventor: Derek Alan Winters
  • Patent number: 9118637
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for automatically changing the mode of download of a download manager in a device are provided. The download manager can send a timeout option to a TFTP server and automatically change the mode of download based on whether a timeout option acknowledgement is received. The download manager can include a first control attribute to enable or disable sending a timeout option to the TFTP server and/or a second control attribute to set the initial download mode of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventor: Derek Alan Winters
  • Publication number: 20150071433
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the remote signing of images created at a signing client. An image can be output from a signing client to a remote signing server, and the signing server can identify, from information carried by the image, one or more signatures needed by the image and/or encoding algorithm(s) to be applied to the image. The signing server can encode the image using the requested encoding algorithm(s) and/or can add requested signature(s) to the image, and the signing server can output the signed image to one or more designated targets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Shi Jin Chen, Derek Alan Winters
  • Patent number: 8667522
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus can provide channel scanning. In various examples, a channel scanning module can instruct scanning of multiple channels within a wideband frequency range by assigning channels to one or more demodulators to attempt to lock onto a signal at the assigned channel. In other examples, a channel scanning module can instruct scanning for downstream channels by assigning channels to multiple narrowband tuners and multiple demodulators to attempt to lock onto a signal on the assigned channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Punit Shah, Derek Alan Winters
  • Publication number: 20120233348
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for automatically changing the mode of download of a download manager in a device are provided. The download manager can send a timeout option to a TFTP server and automatically change the mode of download based on whether a timeout option acknowledgement is received. The download manager can include a first control attribute to enable or disable sending a timeout option to the TFTP server and/or a second control attribute to set the initial download mode of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2011
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventor: Derek Alan Winters