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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2021
Filed:
Jun. 16, 2016
Interdigtal Madison Patent Holdings, Sas, Paris, FR;
Scott Edward Klopfenstein, Fishers, IN (US);
Steven True, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Chad Andrew Lefevre, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Interdigital Madison Patent Holdings, SAS, Paris, FR;
Abstract
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.