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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150074245 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR FACILITATING A CONNECTION BETWEEN DEVICES - Methods, devices and systems for facilitating a connection are described. In one aspect, a method for facilitating a connection between a public internet protocol (IP) address allocated remote management server (RMS) and private IP address allocated customer-premises equipment (CPE) devices that are serviced by a home gateway device (HGD) is described. The CPE devices are located within a different type of network than the RMS. The HGD implements the method which includes: receiving, from an operation support system, a request to download a service module stored on a storage server, the request including an identifier associated with a CPE device; in response to receiving the request, downloading the service module from the storage server; initiating the downloaded service module on the HGD; and in response to initiating the service module, instructing an identified CPE device based on the identifier to establish the connection with the RMS via the HGD. | 03-12-2015 |
20140349688 | PAGING AN IDLE STATE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Disclosed is a method of paging an electronic device when the electronic device is in an idle state, the method comprising: determining a time; determining a primary tracking area that is associated with a time period in a profile of the electronic device, wherein the time period comprises the determined time; and transmitting a paging message to the electronic device in one or more target tracking area, the one or more target tracking area comprising the primary tracking area. | 11-27-2014 |
20140348156 | OPTIMIZING ROUTE SELECTION BASED ON TRANSCODING - Disclosed is a method of selecting a route for data transmission. The method comprises: receiving an ingress codec profile and an identification of a destination; determining whether there is a matching codec pair that includes a codec that is identified in both the ingress codec profile and one or more egress codec profile; identifying one or more compatible codec pairs between the codecs listed in the ingress codec profile and the codecs listed in the egress codec profiles associated with egress trunk groups; prioritizing a list of codec pairs, each codec pair in the list of codec pairs comprising a codec identified in the ingress codec profile and a codec identified in an egress codec profile; and, selecting one trunk group from the egress trunk group list, the selected trunk group having a codec profile that comprises a codec from a codec pair in the prioritized list of codec pairs. | 11-27-2014 |
20140279501 | METHODS AND DEVICES FOR FRAUD DETECTION BASED ON ROAMING STATUS - Methods, devices and servers for assisting in financial transaction fraud detection are described. In one aspect, a method for notifying of a roaming status of an electronic device is described. The method is implemented by a wireless service provider server associated with a wireless service provider. The electronic device is associated with a subscription service package of the wireless service provider. The method includes: detecting a roaming condition associated with the electronic device; and after detecting the roaming condition, retrieving financial institution information associated with the electronic device, the financial institution information identifying a financial institution, and sending a notification of the roaming status of the electronic device to a financial institution server associated with the identified financial institution. | 09-18-2014 |
20140241167 | HYBRID CABLE-WIRELESS SYSTEM - Disclosed are methods and system for managing transmission of data between a hub and a receiver, the hub connected to the receiver by a first transport medium, and the hub connected to the receiver by a wireless network, the method comprising receiving a request from the receiver to transmit data upstream; determining that the data transmission across the first transport medium is congested; and, in response to determining that the data transmission across the first transport medium congested, instructing the receiver to transmit data upstream on the wireless network. | 08-28-2014 |
20140241166 | CHANNEL BONDING FOR MULTIPLE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS - Described is a method of managing the bonding of transmissions over a legacy transmission system and over a new transmission system, the legacy transmission system comprising a legacy Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS), the new transmission system comprising a new CMTS and configured to transmit data using a new mode, the method comprising: receiving data at the new CMTS, the data comprising an identification of a receiver as a destination for the data, the legacy receiver configured to receive data transmitted using the legacy mode; monitoring an output of the legacy CMTS; and determining, based on the monitored output, whether to route the data to the legacy CMTS to transmit to the receiver. | 08-28-2014 |
20140132477 | VERTICALLY INTERLEAVED DISTRIBUTED ANTENNA SYSTEM - A vertically interleaved in-building distributed antenna system is described. The in-building distributed antenna system includes a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) radio. The MIMO radio includes a first branch connector and a second branch connector. The in-building distributed antenna system further includes a first branch transport medium coupled to the first branch connector and a second branch transport medium coupled to the second branch connector. The in-building distributed antenna system further includes a plurality of antennas. The plurality of antennas includes one or more first branch antennas coupled to the first branch transport medium and one or more second branch antennas coupled to the second branch transport medium. The first branch antennas are vertically interleaved with the second branch antennas in the structure. | 05-15-2014 |
20140067812 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING DOCUMENT CLUSTERS - Document cluster ranking systems and methods of ranking document clusters are described. In some example embodiments, the method comprises: obtaining, at a document cluster ranking system, a value associated with a first feature for each of a plurality of document clusters; based on the values associated with the first feature, automatically generating, at the document cluster ranking system, a plurality of first feature bins, each first feature bin defining a range of values and a bin identifier; and obtaining a score for one of the document clusters, by: i) identifying the first feature bin having a range of values which includes the obtained value associated with the first feature for that one of the document clusters; and ii) determining a score for that document cluster based on the first feature bin identifier for the identified first feature bin. | 03-06-2014 |
20140038563 | RADIO MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM USING EMBEDDED UNIVERSAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CARD - A multi-use embedded universal integrated circuit card contains more than one active MNO (mobile network operator) profile. The example card may include a time manager and a radio resource schedule for managing access to a radio within a wireless device. The time manager enables one of the active MNO profiles at a time in accordance with the radio resource schedule, effectively allocating respective time slices to applications associated with each of the active MNO profiles. | 02-06-2014 |
20140004827 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOTE PROVISIONING OF EMBEDDED UNIVERSAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CARDS | 01-02-2014 |
20140003478 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FAULT IDENTIFICATION USING PRE-EQUALIZATION COEFFICIENTS | 01-02-2014 |
20140003363 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CARRIER AGGREGATION IMD CONTROL | 01-02-2014 |
20130268989 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY ALOCATING POPULAR CONTENT - Methods and devices for dynamically allocating popular content to multi-node transmission channels are described. In one aspect, a method, performed by a content delivery system is described. The content delivery system comprises a termination system configured to deliver content to a plurality of nodes over a plurality of transmission channels. The method comprises: allocating transmission channels as multi-node transmission channels, each multi-node transmission channel being configured to distribute content from the termination system to a plurality of nodes; allocating transmission channels as single-node transmission channels, each single-node transmission channel being configured to distribute content from the termination system to a single node; and selecting content for transmission in the multi-node transmission channels based on content usage data. | 10-10-2013 |
20130231087 | RADIO MANAGEMENT METHOD AND SYSTEM USING EMBEDDED UNIVERSAL INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CARD - A multi-use embedded universal integrated circuit card contains more than one active MNO (mobile network operator) profile. The example card may include a time manager and a radio resource schedule for managing access to a radio within a wireless device. The time manager enables one of the active MNO profiles at a time in accordance with the radio resource schedule, effectively allocating respective time slices to applications associated with each of the active MNO profiles. | 09-05-2013 |
20130227630 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING BANDWIDTH - A bandwidth management system, receiver, and method of managing bandwidth in a content delivery system are described. In one embodiment, the method includes: identifying two or more content items which are associated with at least some common content and which are temporally related; determining a relative priority of the least some of the identified content items; and allowing a receiver requesting the content associated with a lower priority content item to access a multicast associated with a higher priority content item. | 08-29-2013 |
20130223671 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY WATERMARKING MEDIA - A dynamic watermark generation method and system in which the dynamic watermark may have a default length or a shorter length, and wherein the dynamic watermark is generated to have the determined length. The dynamic watermark is a locally-unique code that is used as an index to a database entry that identifies the subscriber that requested the media asset. In some instances, the entry may include a timestamp, a subscriber device identifier such as a MAC address or IP address, a subscriber identifier or ID number, and a media asset identifier such as a static ID. The static ID may include a code that indicates whether the dynamic watermark is of a default length or shorter. The length of the dynamic watermark may be partly based upon projected audience size for the requested media asset. | 08-29-2013 |
20130154822 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CROSS MEDIA ALARM EVENT NOTIFICATION - A method for alarm event notification from a server system in relation to a premises such as a home or building. The server system acts as a centralized monitoring and notification security system for monitoring of the premises and receiving an alarm event from an on-premises monitoring system. The method includes: receiving in a server system an alarm event in relation to the premises, determining a presence status of a client application, generating a message in relation to the alarm event, and sending the message to the client application having the presence status of being present. The message may be generated to include message content which varies in dependence of capabilities of the client application having the presence status of being present. | 06-20-2013 |
20130097634 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME ADVERTISEMENT SELECTION AND INSERTION - Methods and devices for implementing real-time advertisement customization and selection. A video program has associated avail metadata, separate from the video program itself, and which is generated to define the avails for the video program. The avail metadata may contain fields specifying the duration, insertion point and type of each avail, and may also specify characteristics of the video program. An avail metadata encoder is configured to customize the avail metadata based on a request to view or play the video program. The customization may be specific to a client device and may reflect various characteristics, including details of the client device, an associated subscriber profile, geographic information, etc. Advertisements are then dynamically selected using the customized avail metadata and links to the advertisements are placed in the customized avail metadata. | 04-18-2013 |
20130070772 | COAXIAL CABLE DISTRIBUTION OF CATV AND WIRELESS SIGNALS - A system and method for distributing signals from a first communications network and a second communications network to a location, including a base transceiver station configured to receive a signal from the first communications network and convert the signal into an RF signal for transmission to a mobile terminal, the RF signal having an RF frequency above a threshold frequency, and a coupling module configured to: receive the RF signal from the base transceiver station and receive a data signal from the second communications network, the data signal having an RF frequency below the threshold frequency; combine the RF signal and the data signal into a combined signal with the RF signal and data signal each retaining their respective frequencies; and provide the combined signal over a coaxial cable link to the location. | 03-21-2013 |
20130067523 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING BANDWIDTH - A bandwidth management system, receiver, and method of managing bandwidth in a content delivery system are described. In one embodiment, the method includes: identifying two or more content items which are associated with at least some common content and which are temporally related; determining a relative priority of the least some of the identified content items; and allowing a receiver requesting the content associated with a lower priority content item to access a multicast associated with a higher priority content item. | 03-14-2013 |
20120330975 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CREATING AN INTEREST PROFILE FOR A USER - Profiling systems and methods of creating and using user interest profiles are described. In some example embodiments, the method includes: creating a topic set which includes topics which are organized in a hierarchical structure which includes a plurality of topic levels including an upper topic level and a lower topic level, each topic in the lower topic level being a subtopic of at least one of the topics in the upper topic level; monitoring interest in a plurality of documents for a user to identify one or more documents-of-interest to the user; and based on the monitored interest for the user, creating an interest profile for the user by determining a measure of topical interest for the user for at least one of the topics at the upper topic level and for a subtopic of that topic, the subtopic being at the lower topic level. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330969 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR RANKING DOCUMENT CLUSTERS - Document cluster ranking systems and methods of ranking document clusters are described. In some example embodiments, the method comprises: obtaining, at a document cluster ranking system, a value associated with a first feature for each of a plurality of document clusters; based on the values associated with the first feature, automatically generating, at the document cluster ranking system, a plurality of first feature bins, each first feature bin defining a range of values and a bin identifier; and obtaining a score for one of the document clusters, by: i) identifying the first feature bin having a range of values which includes the obtained value associated with the first feature for that one of the document clusters; and ii) determining a score for that document cluster based on the first feature bin identifier for the identified first feature bin. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330968 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MATCHING COMMENT DATA TO TEXT DATA - Methods and comment association systems for associating one or more comments with one or more primary electronic documents are described. In one aspect, the method comprises: identifying, at a comment association system, one or more key terms from at least a portion of the one or more primary electronic documents; identifying, at the comment association system, one or more comments associated with the identified key terms; determining, at the comment association system, whether an identified comment is sufficiently related to the one or more primary electronic documents by calculating one or more relation score for that identified comment and comparing the relation score to one or more threshold; and if the identified comment is sufficiently related to the one or more primary electronic documents, then associating the identified comment with the one or more primary electronic documents at the comment association system. | 12-27-2012 |
20120330938 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FILTERING DOCUMENTS - A method and document separation system for separating a set of related documents is described. In one aspect, the method comprises: determining, on a document selection system, quality scores for a plurality of the documents in the set of related documents; obtaining a similarity score for a plurality of pairs of documents in the set of related document; and on a document selection system, obtaining a first subset of related documents which solves an optimization problem, the first subset of related documents including a portion of the document in the set of related documents, the optimization problem being a function of one or more quality scores of the documents assigned to the first subset of related documents and one or more similarity scores of pairs of documents assigned to the first subset of related documents. | 12-27-2012 |
20120224566 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RE-USING IPSEC TUNNEL IN CUSTOMER PREMISES EQUIPMENT - A method for re-using an existing IPSec tunnel for multiple services. The IPSec tunnel is established from customer premises equipment to the core network to support licensed frequency communications, such as a femtocell. UMA communication using unlicensed frequencies may be carried out by re-using the IPSec tunnel to securely route UMA communications from a UMA device to a UNC within the core network via the customer premises equipment. The network determines whether to redirect UMA communications through an existing IPSec tunnel by determining whether a newly established second IPSec tunnel for UMA communications originates from an access point collocated with a femtocell that has an existing IPSec tunnel. | 09-06-2012 |
20120151525 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING A VIDEO RECEIVER - A method and device for displaying an electronic program guide on a handheld device. The guide includes a plurality of tiles, each tile associated with a television program. The device receives a related content request input through its touchscreen and, in response, sends a related content request message to a gateway server over a wireless network connection, the related content request message includes information identifying one of the plurality of programs. The device receives and displays related media content from the gateway server in reply to the related content request message. | 06-14-2012 |
20120076303 | INTERCEPT ACCESS POINT FOR COMMUNICATIONS WITHIN LOCAL BREAKOUTS - Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for the capability within a gateway to dynamically monitor communications and protocols from a targeted user in a local breakout. A gateway product with this capability thus performs the function of an intercept access point (IAP). Communications to and from the targeted user are directed through the gateway and are intercepted in a manner not visible to the targeted user. | 03-29-2012 |
20110296478 | DEVICE, METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SERVICE INSERTION DURING CONTENT DISPLAY - A system, device and method for service insertion during a video display. A client device detects a video request input, and in response, selects and initiates an advanced service asset while the player buffers the requested video data. The output of the player is displayed in a background field while the media display data of the advanced service asset is displayed in a foreground field. The player display data may be brought to the foreground after a preset time or when the player is ready to display the requested video. | 12-01-2011 |
20110293093 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR IDENTITY-BASED KEY MANAGEMENT - Systems, methods and devices for distributing a group key between a transmitter and a group of receivers connected over a network. The described group key distribution can be implemented in any television network for encrypted transmission of television related content to large and dynamic groups of subscribers' receivers. Wherein each receiver contributes to the group key by securely transmitting its contribution to the transmitter. The transmitter also contributes to the group key and generates the group key based on all contributions. The transmitter further generates partial keys specific to each receiver such that each receiver can generate a copy of the group key from its contribution and the partial key it receives. The transmitter sends each receiver its corresponding partial key so that each receiver can calculate a copy of the group key. | 12-01-2011 |