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Interdigital Ce Patent Holdings

Steven True

Chad Andrew Lefevre

Barry Jay Weber

Scott Edward Klopfenstein

Mark Allen McCleary

Chad Lefevre

A system and method for setting time and date in a device (e.g., a set top box (), or similar client device) through a network connection when a network time standard server () (e.g., a NTP server) is unavailable (e.g., blocked or blacklisted) are provided. The system and method of the present disclosure involves sending () a request over a network from a device for information from an Internet address (), receiving () a packet () from the Internet address () in response to the request, extracting () time and date information from a header () in the packet (), and using the extracted time and date information to set () the current time and date for the device.

System and method for setting time and date in a device without access to network time protocol

The disclosed embodiments relate to a system and method for inserting sync bytes into a video transport stream. More specifically, there is provided a method comprising determining a parsing procedure supported by a first set top box, appending a first transport packet to comply with the parsing procedure of the first set top box, and transmitting the first transport packet to the first set top box.

System and method for inserting sync bytes into transport packets

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