Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Srirama R Kalidindi

Sanjay Thakurdas Ahuja

Anjaneya Pericharla

Arjun Baskaran

Sagar Deepak Mahurkar

Sankar Ram Dhanabalan

Srinivasu Yelamarti

Sameer Gavade

Enrique Ruiz-Velasco

Shafiq Kassam

Japan A Mehta

Praveen Atreya

John K Trimper

Laxmi Ashish Arte

Mukunda Raju

Jaykishan Tiwari

Tulasi Kumar Neeli

Heather E Mcdavitt

Saleem Khan Kamaludeen

Ramesh Nagathan

Xuejun Hu

One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for automatically connecting a client device to a remote private network are provided. In an example, a networking device receives, from a client device, a first network-access request indicative of a first service set identifier (SSID). In response to the first network-access request, the networking device (i) establishes an encrypted connection between the networking device and a remote private network, and (ii) provides the client device with access to resources of the remote private network via the encrypted connection.

Systems and methods for automatic connection of client device to remote private network

In some implementations, a first device may obtain first channel state information (CSI) of a second device. The first device may determine that a variance of the first CSI exceeds a variance threshold. The first device may determine that a motion event has occurred based on determining that the variance, of the first CSI, exceeds the variance threshold. The first device may determine a location of the motion event based on the first CSI and second CSI of a third device. The first device may adjust an operation of one or more devices associated with the location based on determining the motion event.

Systems and methods for detecting motion events based on channel state information

A device may receive radio frequency (RF) transmissions from access points provided in a zone, and may calculate channel state information (CSI) for the access points based on the RF transmissions. The device may identify CSI phases that satisfy a phase threshold to eliminate surrounding movement in the zone and to focus on an entry location of the zone, and may perform a short-time Fourier transform of the CSI phases to generate a frequency versus time graph. The device may perform a spectrogram analysis of the frequency versus time graph or may process the frequency versus time graph, with a machine learning model, to determine a quantity of people in the zone and a start and stop times associated with entries and exits of the people to and from the zone. The device may perform actions based on the quantity of people and the start and stop times.

Systems and methods for detecting motion in a zone

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an inter-networked content service is provided. The inter-networked content service may allow an end device to receive content from a set top box when the end device is not connected to a local area network of the set top box. The inter-networked content service may provide for push notification messaging between the end device and the set top box to obtain network address, status, and port information in support of a content session.

Content delivery to over the top device from customer premises equipment using notifications and dynamic port assignment

A network device distributes, to multiple user devices, a client application that includes multiple modular code segment files and obtains updated code segment files and dependency information for the client application, the dependency information associating known defects in the client application with one or more of the updated code segment files. The network device receives an error report from one of the multiple user devices, the error report including a particular defect identifier, and determines, based on the dependency information, that an updated code segment file is available to correct an error indicated by the particular defect identifier. The network device retrieves, from a code segment storage location, the updated code segment file and sends the updated code segment file to the one of the multiple user devices.

Dynamic delivery of code and fixes

A method, apparatus, and system for providing improved EPGs are described. An availability, at a set-top box, of a media stream is determined, wherein the media stream includes one or more of a first plurality of programs associated with a subscriber. One or more electronic program guides indicating a second plurality of programs associated with the subscriber based on the availability of the media stream are accessed, wherein each of the second plurality of programs are accessible to the set-top box via a data stream that is separate from the media stream and the second plurality of programs includes at least one program of the first plurality of programs. Scheduling information associated with the one or more electronic program guides based on the availability of the media stream is retrieved via the data stream.

Method, apparatus, and system for providing electronic program guide changes during outages in a media stream

A system may receive, from a content provider, metadata associated with a video asset, where the metadata includes information associated with the video asset and identifies a future time when the video asset will be available for distribution. The system may further process the metadata to create a virtual asset associated with the video asset, where the processed metadata include at least an indication that the metadata is associated with the virtual asset; publish the virtual asset to a store front that allows the user device to select the virtual asset to obtain the virtual asset; and transmit a notification or the video asset, to the user device and at the future time, based on the selection of the virtual asset by the user device, where the notification indicates that the video asset is available to be downloaded.

Creating and using a virtual video asset in a video provisioning system

A device may be configured to receive a request to record content. The device may receive copy control information associated with the content that indicates a first quantity of copies of the content that the device is permitted to make available for check out from each recording of the content. The device may determine to record the multiple times based on the first quantity of copies failing to satisfy a particular value. The device may record the content multiple times using multiple tuners based on the request. The device may make a second quantity of copies of the content available for check out to at least one client device based on recording the content the plurality of times. The second quantity of copies may be greater than the first quantity of copies.

Recording content multiple times and reserving a copy of the content for check out

Methods, devices, and storage mediums provide for selecting a remote control mode of operation for a mobile device to allow the mobile device to remotely control a program receiving device. Additionally, methods, devices, and storage mediums provide for a proxy service to allow the mobile device to remotely control a program receiving device, an over-the-top service to allow the mobile device to remotely control a program receiving device, and a direct link service to allow the mobile device to remotely control a program receiving device. Methods, devices, and storage mediums also provide for a notification protocol.

Remote control of program receiving devices

A system may send a request for video content to a server device; obtain, in response to the request, control information, associated with the video content, where the control information may include one or more digital versatile disc (DVD) features that correspond to one or more portions of the video content; and present the control information, for display, via a user interface, where presenting the control information for display may enable a user, of the video client device, to interact with the control information as though the video content was being played by a DVD player. The system may also receive selection of a DVD feature, of the one or more DVD features; and obtain, from the server device, a portion of the video content, of the one or more portions of the video content, that begins at a point that corresponds to the selected DVD feature.

Provisioning interactive video content from a video on-demand (VOD) server

An interactive program system includes a device that receives program data and Enhanced TV Binary Interchange Format (EBIF) data associated with an interactive application; identifies the EBIF data; converts the EBIF data to a data format compatible with a user device; generates an EBIF notification based on the EBIF data; transmits the EBIF notification to the user device; and transmits the converted EBIF data to a network device. The user device communicates with the network device based on the EBIF notification and displays the converted EBIF data. The user device transmits input data to the network device and the network device provides interaction data to the device.

Interactive program system

A system may receive, from a set top box (STB), a request for a video asset; retrieve a profile, associated with a user of the STB, that identifies a device, associated with the user, that is a different type of device than the STB; determine whether a transaction history associated with the STB or another transaction history, associated with the device, indicates that the video asset is authorized to be transmitted to the STB; transmit the video asset to the STB based on a determination that the transaction history or the other transaction history indicates that the video asset is authorized to be transmitted to the STB; perform a transaction on the video asset based on a determination that the first transaction history or the second transaction history does not indicate that the video asset is authorized be transmitted to the STB, and transmit the video asset to the STB as a result of the transaction.

Back office support for a video provisioning system

A system, associated with a video provisioning system, may receive a hierarchical representation of categories and subcategories associated with a catalog of video assets; and condense the hierarchical representation of categories and subcategories into a file. The system may further transmit the file to a set top box, where transmitting the file allows the set top box to access the hierarchical representation of categories and subcategories without retrieving, from the video provisioning system, additional information associated with the hierarchical representation of categories and subcategories.

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