Tho T Autruong

7509663, Mar 24, 2009

Feb 14, 2005

11/057749

Stephen L. Maynard - Arvada CO, US
Joseph M. Hassell - Thornton CO, US
John W. Callahan - Broomfield CO, US
Tho T. Autruong - Boulder CO, US
Vitaly Shoykhet - Broomfield CO, US
Karla J. Towne - Highlands Ranch CO, US

Time Warner Cable, Inc. - New York NY

H04H 60/33

725 10, 725 34

A favorites list of program channels which a cable TV user likely prefers is generated automatically, from which the user may select a program channel to watch. Each program channel in the favorites list is identified based on a measure of the duration in which the program channel is continuously tuned to. In an embodiment, this measure varies nonlinearly with such a duration. The favorites list may further comprise sublists of program channels which may correspond to different periods of a day, week, etc.

7954128, May 31, 2011

Feb 11, 2005

11/056625

Stephen L. Maynard - Arvada CO, US
Tho Autruong - Boulder CO, US
John Callahan - Broomfield CO, US
Nicholas Nielsen - Erie CO, US

Time Warner Cable Inc. - New York NY

H04N 7/173
H04N 5/783

725 88, 725102, 386343, 386350

Methods and apparatus for performing dynamic compensation for delays over extant infrastructure within a content-based network. In one embodiment, the network comprises a cable network, and the infrastructure comprises that nominally used for on-demand (OD) services such as VOD. The method includes periodically or situationally assessing variable delays within the system associated with functional commands (such as “trick mode” commands), and dynamically compensating for these variable delays in order to improve the accuracy and timeliness of the user's trick mode command. This approach increases user satisfaction, and obviates the issuance of additional compensatory trick mode commands that only further degrade the performance of the network.

7987477, Jul 26, 2011

Feb 20, 2009

12/389724

Stephen L. Maynard - Arvada CO, US
Joseph M. Hassell - Thornton CO, US
John W. Callahan - Broomfield CO, US
Tho T. Autruong - Boulder CO, US
Vitaly Shoykhet - Broomfield CO, US
Karla J. Towne - Highlands Ranch CO, US

Time Warner Cable, Inc. - New York NY

H04H 60/33

725 10, 725 9, 725 13, 725 14, 725 34, 725 46

A favorites list of program channels which a cable TV user likely prefers is generated automatically from which the user may select a program channel to watch. Each program channel in the favorites list is identified based on a measure of the duration in which the program channel is continuously tuned to. In an embodiment, this measure varies nonlinearly with such a duration. The favorites list may further comprise sublists of program channels which may correspond to different periods of a day, week, etc. The favorites list may be generated from programs watched on multiple viewing devices.

20110231883, Sep 22, 2011

May 27, 2011

13/117851

Stephen L. Maynard - Arvada CO, US
Tho Autruong - Boulder CO, US
John Callahan - Broomfield CO, US
Nicholas Nielsen - Erie CO, US

H04N 7/173

725 88

Methods and apparatus for performing dynamic compensation for delays over extant infrastructure within a content-based network. In one embodiment, the network comprises a cable network, and the infrastructure comprises that nominally used for on-demand (OD) services such as VOD. The method includes periodically or situationally assessing variable delays within the system associated with functional commands (such as “trick mode” commands), and dynamically compensating for these variable delays in order to improve the accuracy and timeliness of the user's trick mode command. This approach increases user satisfaction, and obviates the issuance of additional compensatory trick mode commands that only further degrade the performance of the network.

20130330087, Dec 12, 2013

Jun 11, 2012

13/492960

Mark O. Vogel - Statesville NC, US
Ronald Howard Diego - Boca Raton FL, US
Stephen L. Maynard - Arvada CO, US
Tho Autruong - Boulder CO, US

H04B 10/00

398116

A micronode includes an electrical port connectable to a downstream device, an optical port connectable to a head end having an upstream controller and an electro-optical converter connected to the electrical port and to the optical port and configured to convert electrical signals received from the downstream device at the electrical port to optical signals and to convert optical signals received from the head end via the optical port to electrical signals. The micronode also includes an addressable controller configured to receive a micronode polling request from the upstream controller and to determine when the downstream device is sending signals to the head end and begin a response to the micronode polling request in response to a determination that the downstream device is transmitting information to the head end. Also, an associated method of controlling the micronode.

51503689, Sep 22, 1992

Apr 10, 1990

7/507283

Tho Autruong - Mountain View CA
Daniel Lai - Los Altos CA

Rolm Systems - Santa Clara CA

H04L 118
G06F 1100

371 31

Method and apparatus for minimizing retransmissions during communication in a modem-to-modem communications system. The inventive method includes the steps of: (a) receiving a data packet and determining a checksum; (b) comparing the checksum with a checksum embedded in the data packet; (c) if the checksums are the same, transmitting a signal which indicates that the data packet was received correctly and returning to step (a); (d) if the checksums are different, incrementing a counter; (e) checking the counter, if the counter is less than a predetermined threshold, saving the data packet with its embedded checksum, transmitting a signal which indicates that the data packet was not received correctly and returning to step (a); (f) otherwise, bit averaging the newly received data packet with previously received and stored data packets, including the embedded checksums, and determining a checksum for the bit averaged data packet; (g) if the bit averaged, embedded checksum matches the determined checksum for the bit averaged data packet, transmitting an "OK" signal and returning to step (a); and (h) if the bit averaged, embedded checksum does not match the determined checksum for the bit averaged data packet, saving the newly received data packet with its embedded checksum, transmitting a signal which indicates that the data packet was not received correctly and returning to step (a).

20140237524, Aug 21, 2014

Feb 24, 2014

14/188548

- New York NY, US
Tho Autruong - Boulder CO, US
John Callahan - Broomfield CO, US
Nicholas Nielsen - Erie CO, US

H04N 21/6587
H04N 21/472
H04N 21/647

725 90

Methods and apparatus for performing dynamic compensation for delays over extant infrastructure within a content-based network. In one embodiment, the network comprises a cable network, and the infrastructure comprises that nominally used for on-demand (OD) services such as VOD. The method includes periodically or situationally assessing variable delays within the system associated with functional commands (such as “trick mode” commands), and dynamically compensating for these variable delays in order to improve the accuracy and timeliness of the user's trick mode command. This approach increases user satisfaction, and obviates the issuance of additional compensatory trick mode commands that only further degrade the performance of the network.