Bce Inc.

Chris Snyder

Ferris Eng

Michael H Desroches

Constantin Tivig

Haki Sharifi

Hailun Huang

Theodore Tse

Peter Santos

Helen Huang

Frederic Tardif

Simon Lavigne-Giroux

Josh Gordon

Georges-Etienne Legendre

Olena Chernukhina

Maxime Carbonneau-Leclerc

Monitoring consumption of media content on a device may include receiving a media content playback event at a content consumption device, generating a content consumption notification message including subscriber information, content consumption device information, media content playback event identifier, and media content information, and transmitting the generated consumption notification message to a content consumption monitoring system.

Content consumption monitoring

A content ingestion system and method allows a single pitch of media content and associated metadata to be provided by a content provider and processed into appropriate packages for different content distribution services or delivery platforms.

Media content ingestion

Methods and systems for monitoring a service provided over a packet-switched network, such as an Internet Protocol television (IPTV) service, an Internet access service, or a voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) telephony service. Various parameters related to the service (e.g., parameters indicative of packet loss, packet corruption, or other packet error) are determined and used to assess various aspects of the service and/or network over which the service is delivered, including a quality of experience (QoE) of subscribers.

Methods and systems for monitoring a service provided over a packet-switched network

Systems and methods of managing personal video recordings are disclosed for providing a network personal video recorder (nPVR) that manages PVR recordings for a plurality of users. Recording scheduling information from a recording request received at the nPVR is checked against existing scheduled recordings and a new recording is scheduled in accordance with the received recording scheduling information if an existing scheduled recording does not already exist. The recording scheduling information received in respective recording requests are associated with respective users to facilitate playback of recorded content and digital rights management.

Systems and methods for managing personal video recordings

Services may be accessed across a network. In order to provide access to the services, a user or more particularly a user's device may be authorized to access the requested service based on an IP address associated with the service request. A subscriber identifier is determined based on the IP address of the request and used to authorize the requested service.

Authorizing a computing device across services

Systems and methods for providing content to a portable device are describe. The systems and methods provide corresponding content to the portable device across different network connections.

Providing content to a portable device across multiple network connections

An electronic programming guide (EPG) may be efficiently distributed through a CDN by breaking the EPG into elements including EPG info element that provides an indication of the current EPG version and a length of schedule blocks within the EPG. The EPG info can be retrieved periodically, and when a change of the EPG version is detected, EPG Channels info can be retrieved that provides a list of all channels in the EPG as well as an indication for each schedule block of the channel of the EPG version in which the schedule block was last changed. The schedule block version information may be used to retrieve the particular schedule block information when required, and if the correct version of the schedule block is not available at the device. The individual schedule block provides an indication of what programs are airing during the schedule block. Further details of each program may be retrieved as required for each program.

Delivery of electronic programming guide using a caching content delivery network

Methods and systems for monitoring a service provided over a packet-switched network, such as an Internet Protocol television (IPTV) service, an Internet access service, or a voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) telephony service. Various parameters related to the service (e.g., parameters indicative of packet loss, packet corruption or other packet error) are determined and used to assess various aspects of the service and/or network over which the service is delivered, including a quality of experience (QoE) of subscribers.

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Chris Snyder