Charter Communications Operating, LLC Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20160134910 | Provider Equipment Generation Of Customer User Interface - Systems, methods, apparatus and other mechanisms of providing a user interface (UI) at a service provider node in the television distribution system by encoding UI imagery to provide an encoded video stream bearing the UI imagery and configured for rendering as a UI screen via a client device video decoder, the UI screen including programming information associated with each of a subset of broadcast channels during a plurality of time intervals, and scaled live video imagery associated with each of the subset of broadcast channels; and at the service provider node, scaling video streams associated with at least the subset of broadcast channels to provide respective scaled live video imagery for the UI screen. | 05-12-2016 |
20160100199 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HOTEL CPE VIA PERSONAL SMART DEVICE - Systems, methods and apparatus enabling businesses or bulk customers (e.g., hotels) spanning geographic footprints of one or more MSOs to provide television, data and/or other services to each guest from the respective MSO associated with that guest, and in accordance with the personal settings, content settings and/or other MSO subscription parameters. | 04-07-2016 |
20160099910 | DOCSIS/MOCA ENABLED COAX DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - System, method and apparatus implementing a smart splitter for use within a DOCSIS/MoCA enabled coaxial distribution system, the splitter for coupling radiofrequency (RF) signal between an input connection and a plurality of output connections, wherein each output connection is associated with a respective outlet, the splitter including a management module, configured to receive identifying data associated with at least one outlet or customer device connected thereto. | 04-07-2016 |
20160098395 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEPARATE AUDIO PROGRAM TRANSLATION - Systems, methods and apparatus providing language translation of a media stream by deriving, at a media routing device, an initial language plaintext representation of audio information associated with an input media stream, translating the initial language plaintext representation to provide a target language plaintext representation, applying text-to-speech processing to the target language plaintext representation to provide corresponding target language audio information associated with the input media stream, combining the corresponding target language audio information with the received media stream to provide thereby an output media stream. | 04-07-2016 |
20150150058 | Method and apparatus for providing dynamic pricing services for an interactive information distribution system - A method and apparatus for providing subscription-on-demand (SOD) services for a interactive information distribution system, where a consumer may subscribe to packages of on-demand programs for a single price and view the programs in the subscribed package at any time for no additional cost. The apparatus and method are embodied in a combination of software, which provides a so called navigator, and hardware, including a subscriber terminal that provides certain functionality for the navigator and service provider equipment that supports the functionality of the terminal. As such, graphical user interface functionality is distributed between the service provider equipment and subscriber equipment (subscriber terminal). Such distribution provides an enjoyable, real time interactive process for accessing SOD services that allows the subscriber to rapidly identify and access a subscription service. In addition, a non-subscriber of a particular service is quickly identified and provided the opportunity to, through the use of a graphical user interface, subscribe to the programming provided by the system. | 05-28-2015 |
20150128216 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTHENTICATING LOCAL CPE - Systems, methods, apparatus and other mechanisms for authenticating wireless customer premises equipment (CPE) at a service location by transmitting an authentication trigger signal via a first communication mechanism associated with the service location toward CPE associated with the service location; monitoring a second communication mechanism associated with the service location to detect therefrom any received authentication trigger response signals; and authenticating only CPE associated with a received authentication trigger response signal, wherein at least one of the first and second communication mechanisms comprises a local infrastructure element. | 05-07-2015 |
20140280744 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ADAPTING CONTENT DELIVERY - A system, method and apparatus for opportunistically transcoding requested content streams into one or more formats to provision thereby one or more content storage libraries. | 09-18-2014 |
20140047484 | SYSTEM AND METHOD BRIDGING CLOUD BASED USER INTERFACES - Systems and apparatus providing UI functionality at a client device via a video decoder/renderer operates to decode a compressed video stream bearing UI imagery and a messaging proxy is adapted to process user interaction data indicative of a local function. | 02-13-2014 |