Aran London Sadja

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a diagnostic method for a cable television network consistent with certain embodiments, which involves sending a polling message to a plurality of modems forming a part of the plurality of television set top boxes from a cable-TV head-end via a cable TV cable connection to the set-top boxes.

TL;DR: In this article, a method of remotely controlling operation of a controlled device involves receiving a telephone call from an owner via a telephone network; authenticating the telephone call to establish that the owner is authorized to control the controlled device; interpreting a voice command from the owner that issues instructions to the controlled devices based on a list of available commands stored in a database along with an Internet Protocol address or URL registry that associates the controlling device with the owner.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a system for initiating communication with a social networking server maintaining user information corresponding to a user, the user information for the user comprising media preferences of the user, one or more connections associated with the user and media preferences for each of the connections.

TL;DR: In this paper, a method and device for platform independent device communication by detecting a request at a processor-based device to perform a function, determining an external device corresponding to the request, retrieving a tag for the external device for performing a function and generating a message implemented in XMPP, having embedded therein the tag.