Patents by Inventor Ting Ning

Ting Ning 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).

  • Control messaging in a cable network
    Patent number: 10148448
    Abstract: A method for providing data streams to a plurality of customer premises equipment (CPE) devices communicatively coupled to a network is provided. Downstream network plant and CPE correlation information is generated with a digital controller that has access to a database including at least one of CPE control information, subscriber management information, security and access information, provisioning information, billing information, application traffic information, and configuration information. A plurality of data streams is provided as Protocol Independent Multicasts (PIM) streams to the plurality of CPE devices, and each of the CPE devices is provided with Multicast Address information relative to the PIM streams to permit auto-discovery by each of the CPE devices of appropriate PIM streams. An apparatus for preforming the above method is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: ARRIS Enterprises LLC
    Inventors: Cliff D. Aaby, Ting Ning, Russell L. Holm, Carol Ansley
  • CONTROL MESSAGING IN A CABLE NETWORK
    Publication number: 20150146721
    Abstract: A method for providing data streams to a plurality of customer premises equipment (CPE) devices communicatively coupled to a network is provided. Downstream network plant and CPE correlation information is generated with a digital controller that has access to a database including at least one of CPE control information, subscriber management information, security and access information, provisioning information, billing information, application traffic information, and configuration information. A plurality of data streams is provided as Protocol Independent Multicasts (PIM) streams to the plurality of CPE devices, and each of the CPE devices is provided with Multicast Address information relative to the PIM streams to permit auto-discovery by each of the CPE devices of appropriate PIM streams. An apparatus for preforming the above method is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2014
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Cliff D. Aaby, Ting Ning, Russell L. Holm, Carol Ansley