Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.

Location: Atlanta, GA
No. of patents: 48

Number	Title	Issue Date
8151300	Smart audio guide system and method A smart audio guide system for use in conjunction with an interactive content distribution system is disclosed. The smart audio guide system includes a recommendation engine for providing a customized viewing-recommendations list for a viewer subsystem based upon th...	04/03/2012
8139606	Methods and systems for providing switched broadband Systems and methods are disclosed for providing switched broadband. The disclosed systems and methods may include creating a traffic signature corresponding to a network element connected to a network, the network element having a network element ID and being addres...	03/20/2012
8132208	Presenting a television services program guide information as a video mosaic Methods and computer-readable media are provided for presenting program guide information using a mosaic of video sources broadcast in a television services system. An application program executed on a television services set-top box generates a matrix of still imag...	03/06/2012
8116631	Hardened, wavelength enabled optical capacity Providing bandwidth expansion in existing HFC infrastructures. A break in a fiber ring is established. A temperature hardened demultiplexer is coupled at the break to an input side of the fiber ring. A temperature hardened multiplexer is coupled at the break to an o...	02/14/2012
D653643	Mobile communications device with handle members	02/07/2012
8108245	Method and system for web user profiling and selective content delivery A method and system are provided for accurately and anonymously profiling Web users and for selectively delivering content such as advertisements to users based on their profiles. The system uses behavioral information preferably collected at the users' point of con...	01/31/2012
8074247	Visual improvement of video stream transitions Four techniques which result in the visual improvement of transitions between video streams with a same packet identifier (PID). All four techniques are applicable in the situation where the stream transition is between two streams that utilize the same PID. Retaini...	12/06/2011
8069076	Generating audience analytics The present invention is directed to generating audience analytics that includes providing a database containing a plurality of user input pattern profiles representing the group of users of terminal device, in which each user of the group is associated with one of ...	11/29/2011
8065708	Method for reducing latency in an interactive information distribution system A method and apparatus for reducing latency caused by information server processing of subscriber request wherein a plurality of content streams defined by a playlist are sequentially provided to a subscriber in a substantially seamless manner and wherein the playli...	11/22/2011
8024761	Method and apparatus of load sharing and fault tolerance in an interactive video distribution system A method and apparatus for load sharing and increasing fault tolerance at a head-end of an interactive information distribution system during a subscriber's video session. A primary head-end controller processes video session data to manage the distribution of strea...	09/20/2011
8019809	Tightly-coupled disk-to-CPU storage server A storage server for efficiently retrieving data from a plurality of disks in response to user access requests. The server comprises a plurality of processors coupled to disjoint subsets of disks, and a custom non-blocking packet switch for routing data from the pro...	09/13/2011
8001560	Method for providing subscripton-on-demand services A method for providing subscription-on-demand services for video-on-demand programs within an interactive information distribution system. The method includes associating a plurality of video-on-demand programming packages as a programming bundle and identifying a n...	08/16/2011
7992172	Method and systems for multicast using multiple transport streams A system for delivering interactive program guide (IPG) includes a number of encoding units, at least one transport stream generator, and a session manager. The encoding units encode a number of IPG pages and generate a number of (e.g., guide, video, audio, and data...	08/02/2011
7983344	Service rate change method and apparatus A method and apparatus for allocating bandwidth within a bandwidth constrained interactive information distribution system. The system determines if a requested information stream may be provided to a requesting subscriber at an appropriate bandwidth level (i.e., ap...	07/19/2011
D641724	Mobile communications device with handle members	07/19/2011
7979880	Method and system for profiling iTV users and for providing selective content delivery A method for profiling an iTV user. The method comprises gathering user-requested content information from iTV interactions, correlating content-associated profile information from a rating service with the user-requested content information, and developing a profil...	07/12/2011
7978722	Host digital terminal tools for voiceport redistributions Communication capacity of a node served by a host digital terminal is managed by redistributing communication lines among headend modems for the node in the host digital terminal. Each node has a plurality of communication lines connected to one or more headend mode...	07/12/2011
7975280	Method and apparatus for performing impulse authorizations within a video on demand environment A conditional access control apparatus for inserting descrambling messages and impulse authorizations to enable requesting subscribers to utilize requested scrambled content. The apparatus includes a content and asset storage module for storing content and assets, a...	07/05/2011
7970645	Method and apparatus for providing targeted advertisements Techniques to deliver targeted advertisements and multimedia contents to viewers. Various types of advertisements are encoded and transmitted. The advertisements may be targeted for different coverage areas (e.g., national and local levels) and may further include v...	06/28/2011
7917934	Method and apparatus for providing subscription-on-demand 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 t...	03/29/2011
7904931	Efficient software bitstream rate generator for video server An apparatus and a method for constraining the delivery rate of a plurality of bitstreams, such as MPEG bitstreams using a single software process. ...	03/08/2011
7899464	Providing wireless information transportation using dual frequencies Wireless information transportation may be provided. An unlicensed radio frequency may be used to transmit information from a first point to a second point. Then, the unlicensed radio frequency may be determined to no longer provide a sufficient service level. Next,...	03/01/2011
7856646	Preparation and utilization of customer profile data in a cable services network Methods and systems for preparing, updating and maintaining customer profile data that may be utilized in an interactive television system for providing tailored customer-specific interactive services, and product offerings and helpful information content. The custo...	12/21/2010
7836474	Method and apparatus for preprocessing and postprocessing content in an interactive information distribution system A method and apparatus for preprocessing and postprocessing content in an interactive information distribution system. Content is retrieved from a storage medium and encapsulated in accordance to an Internet Protocol (IP) format. The encapsulated content is then upl...	11/16/2010
7835506	Method and system for real-time notification and disposition of voice services in a cable services network A method and system are provided for providing real-time notification and disposition of voice services in a cable television services system. A voice services application server enables communications between one or more telecommunications sources and subscriber se...	11/16/2010
7822843	Predicting the activities of an individual or group using minimal information A method and system are provided for predicting the behavior of an individual, e.g., one engaged in an on-line session, based on a comparison of the individual's activities during that session with those participated in by multiple other parties. The individual's ac...	10/26/2010
7778158	Method and apparatus of load sharing and improving fault tolerance in an interactive video distribution system Apparatus and method providing improved fault tolerance through redundancy of hardware and software suitable for use in a head-end of an interactive information distribution system. Communications between each of a head-end controllers and each of the server modules...	08/17/2010
7735106	Method for providing subscription-on-demand services A method for providing subscription-on-demand services for video-on-demand programs within an interactive information distribution system. The method includes associating a plurality of video-on-demand programming packages as a programming bundle and identifying a n...	06/08/2010
7715817	Methods and systems for providing wireless communications through a utility pole mounted antenna Systems and methods are disclosed for providing wireless communications through, for example, a utility pole mounted antenna. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving first data from a wire line network at a transceiver placed at a location on the wir...	05/11/2010
7715816	Methods and systems for providing wireless network communications Systems and methods are disclosed for providing wireless network communications. The disclosed systems and methods may include receiving first data from a wire line network at a transceiver placed at a location on the wire line network. The location may comprise a p...	05/11/2010
7707608	Messaging protocol for interactive delivery system Efficient messaging techniques that facilitate interactive program guide (IPG) delivery and allow a terminal to specifically designate requested items of information from a server. The IPG can be provided via a number of IPG pages, with each page including a number ...	04/27/2010
7707599	Customer support services via a cable services network Methods and systems provide customer support services through interactive television sessions via a cable services network. Cable services customers may pay bills or enroll in automatic bill payment via interactive television sessions. Information on pending work or...	04/27/2010
7698263	Providing a lateral search Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a lateral search. First, a media guide may be displayed comprising at least one display element. The at least one display element may comprise an action card configured to display a plurality of actions that can be tak...	04/13/2010
7669218	Provision of electronic mail services via a cable services network Methods and systems are provided for accessing electronic mail services via a cable services network. A cable television services customer/user may access electronic mail services through a cable television services provider by providing access credentials via an in...	02/23/2010
7664239	Methods and computer-readable media for managing and configuring options for the real-time notification and disposition of voice services in a cable services network Methods are provided for managing and configuring voice services the notification and disposition of voice services, such as telephone calls, in a cable television services system. In response to receiving a notification of an incoming voice service in the cable tel...	02/16/2010
7634796	Method and apparatus providing process independence within a heterogeneous information distribution system A method and apparatus for adapting the delivery of assets and/or content to set top terminals within a heterogeneous information distribution system based on graphics and/or processing capability of set top terminals receiving the assets and/or content. ...	12/15/2009
7616265	Method and system for enabling detection of signals in the presence of noise A method for transmitting data to a receiver comprises the steps of transmitting a pre-conditioning signal to the receiver, and beginning to transmit at least one data packet to the receiver within a given period after beginning transmission of the pre-conditioning ...	11/10/2009
7607152	Demand-cast system and bandwidth management for delivery of interactive programming A system for more efficient utilization of the finite bandwidth available for distribution of interactive program guide (IPG) video sequences. The system utilizes a session manager and a transport stream generator to enable a set top terminal to access an entire arr...	10/20/2009
7607148	Method and apparatus for monitoring an information distribution system Techniques to monitor operation of an information distribution system and delivery of programming, guide data, and other information by the system. These techniques may be used for diagnostics, quality control, and other purposes, and for various types of systems. I...	10/20/2009
7599380	Resetting a multimedia terminal adapter A plurality of network devices may be reset. In order to reset the plurality of network devices, a first file may be received including a plurality of host names corresponding to a plurality of network devices. Next, a second file may be received comprising a plural...	10/06/2009

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Assignee: Cox Communications, Inc.