Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC

Craig Vanderborgh

Ethan Wolf

Peter Stern

Phoenix Kwan

A data analyzer engine can be configured to receive feedback indicating different content currently consumed by subscribers in a cable network environment. The data analyzer engine analyzes the feedback to identify most popular consumed content amongst the different content and produces a content guide to include multiple selectable channels from which content is available for retrieval over a shared communication link in the cable network environment. The content guide can include one or more selectable viewing options to view a rendition of content being identified as more or most popular. Each of one or more playback devices or other suitable resources retrieves and initiates display of the content guide on a display screen. Accordingly, a subscriber can view different available content options as well as an identification of content that is currently the most popular consumed content amongst viewers.

Content consumption and notification in a network

A data analyzer engine receives feedback associated with delivery of content (such as streaming content) to multiple subscriber domains in a cable network environment. The data analyzer engine analyzes the feedback to identify attributes of current content consumption by playback devices operated in the subscriber domains. Based on the analyzed feedback, the data analyzer engine produces control information specifying data flow control rates in which the playback devices are assigned to retrieve content over a shared communication link in the cable network environment. Accordingly, data flow rates in a network environment (such as a subscriber domain) can be controlled to promote fairness and optimal use of available bandwidth amongst multiple playback devices sharing a respective communication link.

Network management, monitoring, and flow control

In furtherance of providing uninterrupted network service, a data analyzer engine in a network environment aggregates real-time feedback from multiple resources that collectively provide delivery of content to multiple subscribers in a network environment. According to one arrangement, the multiple resources are disposed along a network communication path between a content delivery source and the subscriber. Based on analyzing the aggregated real-time feedback from the multiple resources disposed along the network communication path, assume that the data analyzer engine detects occurrence of multiple anomaly conditions at a location in the network communication path. Each of the anomaly condition may or may not be representative of an actual network resource failure. In response to detecting first occurrence of the anomaly conditions, the data analyzer engine initiates generation of a notification to appropriate network management personnel indicating the occurrence of the detected anomaly condition. The network management personnel determine a root cause of the first occurrence of the detected anomaly conditions and provide feedback indicating the root cause and how to correct it. Subsequent to learning and recording a pattern of first detected anomaly conditions and the corresponding root cause, a data analyzer engine compares the learned pattern to future received real-time feedback. Upon detecting a match of the learned pattern to a future occurrence of a same set of anomaly conditions, the analyzer engine provides notification to network management personnel to address the network failure. The notification can include information indicating the likely root cause of the newly detected anomaly condition (which matches a pattern of the originally detected anomaly) as well as how to fix it.

Anomaly detection, alerting, and failure correction in a network

A data analyzer engine receives content consumption feedback associated with multiple subscribers in a cable network environment. In accordance with one embodiment, the data analyzer engine provides notification of popularly consumed content. In accordance with another embodiment, the data analyzer engine generates control information to control content consumption by one or more devices in the cable network environment.

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Golden, CO, United States of America

Craig Vanderborgh