Bigband Networks Inc.

Arris Enterprises LLC

Arris Solutions, Inc.

Arris Group, Inc.

Other

Ran M Oz

Nery Strasman

Amir Leventer

Amit Eshet

Oded Golan

Andrey Yruski

Lior Assouline

Pritesh Mukeshbhai Dave

Michael Field

Swaminatha Vasudevan

Mark Lutsker

Amir Bassan-Eskenazi

Amit Hildeshaim

Kumaraguru Dhandapani

Oren Reches

Nery Strassman

Amir Basan-eskenazi

John B Carlucci

Shai Benjamin

Michael Bauer

John Reister

Douglas D Jones

Gilat Avieli

Tamir Ostfeld

Zeev Vax

Jay Chambers

Asi Elad

Biren Sood

Tamir Tassa

S V Vasudevan

Adi Molkho

Gilat Aviely

Guy Dvir

Mohan Gundu

Ron Guttman

Amit Leventer

Amir Hirschhorn

Mordechai Finkelstein

Nir Bejerano

Omer Schechter

Howard Abramson

Asaf Atzmon

Swaminatha V Vasudevan

A system for providing visual content to a user, the system includes: a memory unit for storing information representative of a large image; an input for receiving a request to view a first portion of the large image; an encoder for processing the large image in order to generate macro-blocks and for generating an MPEG compliant video stream representative of the first portion of the large image; wherein the generating includes processing the macro-blocks that form the first portion; and a transmitter for transmitting over a cable network to the user the MPEG compliant video stream.

System, method and computer readable medium for providing visual content to a user

A method for providing video to a customer premises equipment, the method includes: receiving, by a radio frequency interface of a cable modem, radio frequency signals; receiving by a data tuner out of multiple tuners of the cable modem, radio frequency signals that convey data; detecting, by a monitor of the cable modem, a request to receive a certain video channel that is being broadcasted; wherein the request is sent to the cable modem from a customer premises equipment; tuning a certain tuner out of multiple tuners of the cable modem, in response to a mapping between radio frequencies and video channels, to receive the certain video channel; filtering out data layer encapsulation information that encapsulates certain video channel information; and transmitting certain video channel information to the customer premises equipment.

Method, cable modem and a device for providing video to a customer premises equipment

A method, system and computer readable medium for managing program switch requests, the method includes: (i) receiving a request from a first user device to switch from a current program to a next program; wherein the first user device filters the current program by using a first user device set of packet identifiers; (ii) associating the first user device set of packet identifiers with multiple streams of the next program; and (iii) transmitting to the user device the multiple streams of the next program; wherein these multiple streams are associated with the first user device set of packet identifiers.

System, method and computer readable medium for managing program switch requests

A method for providing programs, the method includes: (i) providing a program multiplex to multiple users device; (ii) considering a removal of at least one program from the multiplex in response to program viewing parameters; (iii) allowing at least one user to respond to a possible removal of the program; and (iv) determining whether to remove the al least one program in response to received user removal responses. A user device that includes a transceiver unit that is connected to a controller, wherein the device is adapted to receive a program multiplex, to receive an indication that at least one program is to be removed from the multiplex, and to selectively transmit a program removal response.

Method and device for receiving and providing programs

A method for providing on demand streaming media to a user device, the method includes: receiving, at a streaming device, a request to stream a certain media stream to a user device; wherein the streaming device is coupled to multiple user devices over a network and is adapted to concurrently transmit multiple media streams to the multiple user devices; obtaining media stream fragments that belong to the certain media stream by the streaming device and from multiple distribution devices; wherein the streaming device and the multiple distribution devices form a high bandwidth media distribution peer to peer network; wherein the streaming device is prevented from uploading media stream fragments to any distribution device; and streaming to the user device the certain media stream.

System, method and computer readable medium for providing media stream fragments

A system and method for triggering media stream modifications and for modifying media streams accordingly. The method includes a first step of determining, by an apparatus, an opportunity to modify a compressed media stream, by a media stream modifier, to provide a modified media stream that includes additional video content; and a second step of generating modification information representative of said determination, to be further transmitted to the media stream modifier.

Method and system for timing media stream modifications

This disclosure provides systems and methods for transmitting content to users. In some implementations, a system can include a session manager operable to initiate a unicast session with an end user device over a dedicated channel and to transmit a unicast multimedia stream associated with the unicast session. The unicast multimedia stream can include service identifier that is recognizable to the end user. The system can also include an interface operable to receive a transmission command that includes the end-user recognizable service identifier, and to transmit the content associated with the multimedia stream to the end user device in response to the content transmission command.

Method and system for transmitting content

Methods and systems for defining a compression and reconstruction scheme of a media stream, for generating and transmitting a base media layer and enhancement data layers and for reconstructing compressed representations of the media stream from the base media layer and the enhancement data layers.

Method and system for scalable representation, storage, transmission and reconstruction of media streams

Method and system for providing data, video and voice to a group of end user devices includes receiving end user device group quality of service rules and access network node bandwidth constraints; assigning multicast addresses and unicast addresses to end user devices of the group in response to the access node bandwidth constraints; and providing, in response to the end user device group quality of service rules and requests to receive services from the residential gateways, data, video and voice utilizing the assigned multicast addresses and unicast addresses. Further methods include receiving location information representative of distances between multiple end user devices and access nodes; defining end user bandwidth constraints in response to the location information and in response to access node bandwidth constraints; and providing, in response to the end user bandwidth constraints and to requests to receive services from the end user devices, data, compressed video and voice.

Method and device for providing services to end user devices

A system, method and a computer-readable medium having a computer-readable code embodied therein for wirelessly broadcasting advertisements to handheld television receivers, the method includes: selecting a first advertisement to broadcast to a first group of handheld television receivers within a cell that are tuned to a first program; wherein the selecting is responsive to profiles of a first group of users that use the first group of handheld television receivers; selecting a second advertisement to broadcast to a second group of handheld television receivers within the cell that are tuned to a second program; wherein the selecting is responsive to profiles of a second group of users that use the second group of handheld television receivers; and wirelessly broadcasting a multiplex that comprises the first program, the second program, the first advertisement and the second advertisement.

System and method for wirelessly broadcasting advertisements

A method for rate reduction of a video stream, the method includes: selecting a non-reference picture of a video stream; and replacing the non-reference picture by a duplicating picture that substantially consists of information that instruct a decoder to duplicate another picture that differs from the non-reference picture; wherein the duplicating picture is smaller than the non-reference picture.

Method and system for rate reduction of video streams

A system and method for generating a mosaic image stream, the method includes: retrieving, at a retrieval rate responsive to an encoding rate of a primary stream, mosaic frame information that comprises a primary frame and multiple secondary frames; generating a mosaic frame from the mosaic frame information; and repeating the retrieving and generating to provide a group of mosaic frames; wherein if a reception rate of a certain secondary stream is slower than the retrieval rate then the retrieving comprises re-fetching a secondary frame of the certain secondary stream; and wherein if a reception rate of a certain secondary stream is slower than the retrieval rate then the retrieving comprises ignoring a group of secondary frames of the certain secondary stream.

System and method for generating a mosaic image stream

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