Cable Television Laboratories, Inc.

Mediaone Group, Inc.

Clarke Stevens

Amol Bhagwat

Darshak Thakore

Jennifer Andreoli-Fang

Brian Alexander Scriber

Vikas Sarawat

Seetharama Rao Durbha

Andrew Alexander Dolan

Monica Ann Marics

Anne P McClard

Lev Lawrence

In some implementations, an onboarding device may enable an onboarding application running on a platform. The onboarding device may receive configuration data for a desired device to determine compatibility with a network. The onboarding device may determine, based on a comparison between configuration data and a configuration criteria for the network, whether a compatibility threshold has been satisfied. The onboarding device may determine, when the compatibility threshold has been satisfied, whether the desired device is compatible with the particular network.

Internet of things (IoT) systems and methods

In some implementations, a network onboarding system may receive, over a first connectivity protocol, a uniform resource identifier (URI) for an IoT device. The network onboarding system may authenticate, over the first connectivity protocol, the IoT device based on the URI. The network onboarding system may exchange, with the IoT device, over the first connectivity protocol, a set of IoT device credentials with a set of onboarding credentials for an IoT network. The network onboarding system may configure a notify message that includes the IoT device credentials for transmission over a second connectivity protocol. The network onboarding system may perform, by the network onboarding system, a filtered discovery of the IoT device over the second connectivity protocol. The network onboarding system may onboard, over the second connectivity protocol, the IoT device onto the IoT network.

Service discovery and other operations related to enabling devices to announce, discover or otherwise control their services and/or the services offered or available from other devices is contemplated. The service discovery may facilitate service discovery for services sourced from devices inside and outside of a network and/or from devices having incompatible messaging capabilities.

Service discovery

Method for automatically switching television channels or other content sources. The method may be used with any electronic media to facilitate switching between channels or other content sources based on events or other occurrences in non-viewed channels, such as but not limited to switching channels based on sporting event occurrences (goals, ending of game, etc.), news event occurrence (breaking news, health tips, etc.), and other any number of other identifiable events.

Method of automatically switching television channels

Administration of sessions, such as but not necessarily user interface (UI) and media sessions, is contemplated. The session administration may include transferring and/or sharing a session from one client to another without requiring an application required to process the transferred/shared session to be operational when receiving an action used to initialize session administration.

Session administration

An architecture for collecting and managing contextual awareness data is contemplated. The architecture may be used to implement various policies as a function of the contextual awareness data, such as but not limited to implementing dwelling specific policies depending on the contextual awareness data indicating whether one or more users are presence within a dwelling.

Contextual awareness architecture

Service discovery and other operations related to enabling devices to announce, discover or otherwise control their services and/or the services offered or available from other devices is contemplated. The service discovery may facilitating service discovery for services sourced from devices inside and outside of a network and/or from devices having incompatible messaging capabilities.

Methods and structure for Digital Rights Management (DRM) are provided. An exemplary system includes a Digital Rights Management (DRM) licensing server. The DRM licensing server is able to receive authentication information generated by a DRM module of a client device, and to receive a device identifier that uniquely distinguishes the client device from other client devices, wherein the device identifier has been generated by the DRM module. The DRM licensing server is further able to authenticate the DRM module based on the authentication information, to create a signed identifier based on the device identifier responsive to authenticating the DRM module, and to transmit the signed identifier to the client device. The system also includes an application server able to register the client device with an account at the application server, based on the signed identifier.

Registration of devices in a digital rights management environment

Method and system of distributing advertisements for storage in a network. The stored advertisements being retrievable for insertion within or other association with services provided to a network subscriber. Identifying characteristics of the advertisement may be used to facilitate the storage thereof and identifying characteristics of the customs may be used to facilitate advertisements associated with services accessed thereby.

Method and system of distributing advertisements

Method and system of transferring scrambled content from location to another. The method and system may include transferring the scrambled content without requiring the descrambling thereof. The method and system may be used to transfer live content, stored content, and the like. The content may relate to television programming and signaling, data, still images, audio, and the like.

Method and system of transferring scrambled content

A media content sharing concept wherein users are able to share highlights or other portions of content with friends. The concept may be used in any number of environments where electronic media, such as but not limited to audio, video, and multi-media, is transferable between a number of users. Bookmarks or other features may be used to facilitate accessing the video clips for subsequent viewing.

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Clarke Stevens