Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Sunil D Limbasia

Abhilash Paul

Aravind Perumandla

John J Christudass

Manah Mounir Khalil

Srinivas Tatavarty

Jacques Gresset

Raul I Aldrey

Siddharth Pandey

Michael R Lamison

Vijaya R Challa

Ashok Kumar

Sampath Nambakkam

Ravi Penumatsa

Syam S Suri

Raghuram Darapu

Venkata Devaki

Wei Wang

The device may receive user information associated with a user. The device may generate a user profile for the user that stores user information and authentication confirmation information. The device may provide a particular cryptographic key and information identifying the user profile. The device may receive a request to authenticate a secure session for a user device from an application server. The device may obtain, based on the user identifier, the authentication confirmation information associated with the user from a data structure storing one or more user profiles. The device may validate the particular response to the particular challenge code based on the authentication confirmation information. The device may provide information to the application server indicating that the secure session is validated for the user device based on validating the authentication information.

Universal anonymous cross-site authentication

An approach is provided for presenting, via a set-top box, audio and/or video transmission to a user. An input is received from the user specifying media content that is accessible over a data network. The media content is retrieved over the data network, and presented via the set-top box.

Method and apparatus for providing virtual channels

A device generates parameters identifying selectively revealed un-obfuscated information associated with administering and assessing a Turing test. The device provides, to a client device, a challenge based on the parameters. The challenge directs the client device to selectively reveal the un-obfuscated information for presentation to a user associated with the client device. The device receives a response, to the challenge, from the client device and determines, based on the response and the parameters, whether the user associated with the client device is human. The device selectively performs an action based on determining whether the user associated with the client device is human.

No-CAPTCHA CAPTCHA

A user device may determine wireless channel load values for multiple wireless channels, each wireless channel load value indicating a load, of the corresponding wireless channel, due to wireless activity by a set of network devices that does not include a first network device connected to the user device; display information regarding the wireless channel load values, the information including an indication of a recommended one of the plurality of wireless channels; receive a selection to change a first wireless channel of the plurality of channels, via which the user device and the network device communicate, to a second wireless channel of the plurality of channels; determine computer code corresponding to a particular model of the first network device; and execute the determined computer code to interact with the first network device to change the wireless channel from the first wireless channel to the second wireless channel.

Automated wireless channel changing

A device may access a single interface image file that includes interface images and generate a media manager interface using the interface images of the interface image file. The device may present the media manager interface for display and detect interface activity corresponding to the interface images presented for display as part of the media manager interface. The device may replace the interface images used to generate the media manager interface with one or more other interface images of the image file, based on the interface activity, to generate a modified media manager interface, and present the modified media manager interface for display.

Efficient image management for media manager

An interface enables a user to select a graphical object to include in a flow. The graphical object is associated with code, and this code may relate to presenting digital content. The interface further allows a user to define a graphical relationship in the flow, such as a connection between the graphical object and another element of the flow. The interface may present the flow in a first area of a display and the digital content in a second area of the display. The code may be executed based on the graphical relationship. For example, the graphical relationship may indicate an order for executing code sections associated with the flow and data exchanged within the code sections.

Unified flow designer

An approach is provided for presenting, via a set-top box, a first media content to a user. The user is prompted with an option to experience a second media content relating to the first media content. The set-top box presents the second media content to the user upon selection of the option by the user.

Method and system for accessing content for presentation via a set-top box

A request is received for playback of a package of media files, the package of media files including at least a first set of media files of a first type and a second set of media files of a second type. The first set of media files and the second set of media files are retrieved via a network. The package of media files is provided to a media playback device such that at least some of the first set of media files are played generally simultaneously as at least some of the second set of media files.

Coordinated multi-media playback

A network device receives, from a set-top box within a local network, a discovery request for a server application within the local network. The network device identifies, based on the discovery request, a wide area network (WAN) Internet Protocol (IP) address for a router in the local network and retrieves, from a database of multiple discovery records, a particular discovery record with an IP address that matches the WAN IP address for the local network. The network device sends, to the set-top box, the particular discovery record for use in initiating a communication session with the server application.

Device discovery service

A client application, executed on a set-top box with a local network, detects that a media server application, executed on a computing device within the local network, is eligible for a software upgrade. The set-top box provides, based on the detecting, an interactive prompt, on a separate television display, to request authorization for the software upgrade. The set-top box receives user input, via a remote control, authorizing the software upgrade and provides, to the media server application on the computing device, a signal for the media server application to initiate the software upgrade.

STB-driven upgrade of remote server application

A device provides, to a server device, a single request for user information associated with an application provided in the device. The device also receives, from the server device and based on the single request, one or more tables in a same format as stored in the server device, where the one or more tables are not joined by the server device. The device further stores the one or more tables in a database associated with the device, queries the one or more tables in the database for the user information, and provides, to the application, the user information retrieved based on the query.

Partially upgradable application and performing database operations with the application

A device receives media objects and metadata associated with the media objects, and utilizes a portion of threads to upload, to a first server, metadata for a portion of the received media objects. The device also utilizes, after the metadata for the portion of the media objects is uploaded, a remaining portion of the threads to upload, to the first server, metadata for a remaining portion of the media objects. The device further utilizes a first thread and a second thread to upload a first two media objects to a second server after the metadata for the remaining portion of the media objects is uploaded, and utilizes, after the first two media objects are uploaded, a third thread and a fourth thread to upload a next two media objects to the second server.

Thread mechanism for media and metadata upload

An approach is provided for the self-provisioning of a feature corresponding to multiple media devices (e.g., set-top boxes). A request to provision a feature on a plurality of set-top boxes is received. It is determined whether the feature is compatible with each of the set-top boxes. The feature is automatically provisioned based on the request and the determination.

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Sunil D Limbasia