Arris Enterprises LLC

Arris Group, Inc.

Andrew Wireless Systems Gmbh

Arris Solutions, Inc.

Ncube Corporation

Arris International IP Ltd

Cliff D Aaby

Christian J Parker

Byron Griffin

Carol J Ansley

Ting Ning

Russell L Holm

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.

Control messaging in a cable network

A content on demand system includes logic to compose information about multiple audio and/or video streams into an audio and/or video stream format, and logic to communicate the information about multiple audio and/or video streams to a plurality of set top boxes.

System to provide index and metadata for content on demand

A video server determines a frequency at which various content titles are accessed, and forms and communicates to downstream client devices a first data carousel of metadata about at least some of the various content titles, the metadata about a particular content title included in the data carousel or not according to how frequently the particular content title is accessed. The video server forms and communicates to downstream edge server devices a second data carousel comprising metadata about at least some of the various content titles, the second carousel updated more frequently than the first data carousel.

Smart carousel

A data carousel exists as an out-of-band carousel (OOBC), and accessed as a hidden background service from the channel map, and that discriminates against metadata that is never (or is rarely) accessed, and that is acquired in the background, filling a cache even when the subscriber is not accessing Video on Demand.

A content on demand system includes logic to compose set top box configuration information into an audio and/or video stream format, and to communicate the configuration information to a plurality of set top boxes.

System to provide set top box configuration for content on demand

A content on demand system includes logic to deliver at least one audio and/or video stream and to insert markers in the at least one stream, the markers indicating a position in the at least one stream, and logic to receive from a set top box a marker for an audio and/or video stream for which the set top box has paused or suspended viewing, and upon a signal from the set top box to resume streaming of the audio and/or video stream from a position proximate to the marker.

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