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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2016
Applicant:
Charter Communications Operating, Llc, St. Louis, MO (US);
Inventors:
James H. Alexander, Denver, CO (US);
Douglas M. Ike, Denver, CO (US);
Assignee:
CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS OPERATING, LLC, St. Louis, MO (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/167 (2011.01); H04N 21/4627 (2011.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04N 21/2347 (2011.01); H04N 21/266 (2011.01); H04N 21/2662 (2011.01); H04N 21/254 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/262 (2011.01); H04N 21/6408 (2011.01); H04N 21/658 (2011.01); H04N 21/845 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4627 (2013.01); H04L 67/10 (2013.01); H04N 21/2347 (2013.01); H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); H04N 21/2541 (2013.01); H04N 21/2662 (2013.01); H04N 21/26258 (2013.01); H04N 21/26613 (2013.01); H04N 21/6408 (2013.01); H04N 21/6581 (2013.01); H04N 21/8456 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems, methods, architectures, mechanisms or apparatus for using provider equipment based resources such as cloud or data center resources to implement various STB functions entirely at the head end, such as changing channels presented via the STB using PE actions only.