Arris Enterprises LLC

Vinod Jatti

Virendra Singh

Nithin Raj Kuyyar Ravindranath

Sandeep Suresh

Sudha Sundaram

William P Franks

Murali S Sahasranaman

Anil Nainwal

Kiran Tovinkere Srinivasan

Santosh Basavaraj Budni

Kanakendiran Ramachandiran

Remesh Kousalya Sugunan

Praveen Girish

Aurovind Sagar Epari

A system, method, and computer-readable recording media implementing detection of wireless home digital interface (WHDI) devices and the configuration of parental control for each. Authenticating through a set-top box (STB) at least one end device (ED), being a WHDI device, on a wireless network. The STB includes a database that provides access codes/set of pins for each ED that is added to the wireless network. When an identification of an ED is already in the database of the STB, and parental control is part of a content access request, a MAC address of the ED is authenticated and an access code/set of pins is obtained. The content access request is processed when the access code/set of pins obtained matches the access code/set of pins that is configured in the database of the STB.

System, method, and computer-readable recording medium of detecting wireless home digital interface devices and configuring parental control for each

A user experience can be enhanced by providing an electronic device, such as a principal network device, that allows for a customizable profile configuration associated with any one or more users, one or more electronic devices, or both. A user can configure the profile configuration so that the user has a consistent, familiar, and customized interface to one or more auxiliary network devices, the principal network device and/or any other electronic devices. The user can have a uniform experience no matter where the user and/or any electronic device is located as the principal network device, for example, can communicate with a network resource to obtain the profile configuration associated with the user.

Customized interface between electronic devices

Aspects of the present disclosure are drawn to a network device comprising: a microphone configured to detect speech from a user; a memory having an event keyword and a date keyword stored therein; and a processor configured to execute instructions stored on the memory to cause the network device to: store, into the memory, detected speech for a predetermined period of time; parse the stored detected speech; determine a future event of the user based on a detected event keyword in the parsed detected speech that corresponds to the event keyword; determine a date of the determined future event based on a detected date keyword in the parsed detected speech that corresponds to the date keyword; create a calendar for the user; and log the future event into the calendar.

Context-sensitive actions within client device

A system and method for managing resources of a processor is disclosed. In an illustrative embodiment, the method includes accepting a command to execute an application at least in part by the processor, executing the application using the processor, monitoring execution parameters characterizing the execution of the application by the processor, and storing the monitored execution parameters in a memory accessible to processor. In one example, the execution parameters including an identifier of the application and a time at which the application begins execution.

Digital rights management system resource manager

An apparatus, method, and computer-readable recording medium receives secure voice commands by an application executing within a smart media device while attached to the Internet. A controller of a smart media device activates an application within the smart media device, determines whether or not the application uses secure voice commands, and when the smart media device determines that the application uses secure voice commands, performs the following: enables the trusted execution environment to receive and decrypt the encrypted audio data and generate application commands corresponding to processing decrypted voice commands, receives, by the application, application commands corresponding to processing decrypted voice commands, and performs the application commands.

Secure voice interface in a streaming media device to avoid vulnerability attacks

A method and system are disclosed for capturing observations of customer-premise equipment or customer-provided equipment (CPE) devices. The method includes reporting a problem detect by a user during use of a customer-premise equipment or customer-provided equipment (CPE) device with one or more specific buttons on a remote controller; and entering the problem into a log with a timestamp.

Method and system for advanced customer bug reporting

A method and system are disclosed for automated utilization of vulnerability databases for consumer electronic (CE) devices. The method includes deploying one or more customer-premise equipment or customer-provided equipment (CPE) broadband devices, each of the one or more broadband devices having one or more software components; loading a database of software component on each of the one or more broadband devices, the database of software components having a functional use case associated with each software component; periodically performing an automated reading of one or more published vulnerability databases; and comparing a list of vulnerabilities from the one or more published vulnerability databases against the database of software components for each of the one or more broadband devices.

Method and system for automated protection against vulnerability and notification to service provider

A client device for identifying unsupported capabilities. A client device detects unsupported capabilities and notifies a service provider or device manufacturer of the unsupported capabilities. The service provider notifies the client device of support for the unsupported capabilities including possible upgrades that may be provided to the client device.

Identification of unsupported device capability to service provider for enhancement and customer attraction

A user environment can be enhanced by the interconnection of multiple network devices. A principal network device can connect to one or more auxiliary network devices. Based on one or more profile parameters, the principal network device can alter, change or modify an aspect or operation of one or more client devices in the user environment. The principal and auxiliary network devices can monitor, detect or sense environment parameters associated with a user or a location within the user environment so as to control one or more aspects or operation of the one or more client devices. The user environment can be controlled for any number of users and any number of client devices. Automatically or dynamically controlling the user environment based on profile parameters can enhance the experience of the user no matter where the user is within the user environment.

Interconnectivity of voice interface network devices to control aspects of a network environment

An apparatus, method, and computer-readable recording medium act upon a voice input and replay a portion of streaming media data. The smart media device has a controller, a display, a buffer for maintaining a portion of streaming media data, a speaker, a microphone, a non-transitory memory storing a program, and a communication interface configured to establish communication connections with a remote server. The smart media device receives streaming media data for output to the display and speaker from the remote server, stores a portion of the streaming media data within the buffer, receives a voice command via the input microphone while media content is output to the display and speaker, generates a data representation of dialog contained within the buffer, and outputs the data representation of dialog to the display.

Interactive smart media device

A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for managing media content having group watermarking data is disclosed. The method comprises transmitting a request to receive the media content from a content playback device, receiving a response to the transmitted request, fetching, by the content playback device according to the response, the requested media content and a watermark schema, the watermark schema fetched from cloud-based storage, identifying, by the content playback device, the group watermarking data in the media content according to the fetched watermarking schema, determining, by the content playback device if the media content is authorized for provision according to the group watermarking data and the fetched watermarking schema, and providing the media content for playback according to the determined authorization.

System and method for automatic detection and reporting of group watermarking data

Technologies are disclosed for associating a subscriber's subscription profile established with a local media content delivery network, or MSO, with a remote CPE and/or network gateway device, perhaps for example served by the same MSO. One or more techniques may control the delivery of a subscriber's media content, perhaps for example by a media control device. Techniques may include receiving one or more credentials by the media control device, where the media control device is geographically remote from the subscriber's local media content delivery network. A signal may be sent to a media content delivery network device, where the signal may include information corresponding to the credentials. A configuration may be received for the subscriber's local media content delivery network in response to the signal. The configuration may be installed on the media control device. Media content may be delivered by the media control device.

Technologies for controlling the flow of subscriber media content outside of a home media content delivery network

The present disclosure describes techniques for performing auxiliary search on streaming media content. The techniques according to the present disclosure may comprise streaming media content to a display of a user and, receiving at least one query associated with a frame of the streamed media content. The techniques further comprise comparing the at least one query with metadata associated with the streamed media content to generate one or more results, and providing the one or more generated results to the display.

Dynamic user engagement and auxiliary search on streaming media content

Technologies are disclosed for controlling at least one media content presentation in a media stream by a media control device. The media stream may include one or more media content presentations. The media control device may communicate with a camera device and/or a display device. The media control device may receive one or more user-gaze detections captured via the camera device. One or more viewpoints on the display device may be ascertained that correspond to the one or more user-gaze detections. At least a first viewpoint of the one or more viewpoints may be ascertained, where the first viewpoint may correspond to a first largest number of similar viewpoints of the one or more viewpoints, and/or a most-recent viewpoint of the one or more viewpoints. The media control device may adjust at least one parameter of at least one media content presentation based on the first viewpoint.

Providing enhanced viewing experience using user gaze detection and video casting

A device including a communication component, a DIAL protocol component, a video processing component and a PIC verification component. The communication component can wirelessly receive a personal identification code, can communicate with a display and can receive first video content from a content provider. The DIAL protocol component can perform protocols in accordance with a multiscreen discovery and launch of first screen content specification. The video processing component can provide first video data including PIC image data corresponding to a code so as to display the first video data and a PIC image on the display. The PIC verification component can generate a verification signal when the personal identification code corresponds to the PIC image data. The video processing component can further provide the first video content to the display based on the verification signal.

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Vinod Jatti