US 11,729,474 B2
System and method for ensuring media appliance stability
Vinod Jatti, Bangalore (IN); Murali S. Sahasranaman, Bangalore (IN); and Virendra Singh, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to ARRIS Enterprises LLC, Suwanee, GA (US)
Filed by ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC, Suwanee, GA (US)
Filed on Jun. 29, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/361,900.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/062,673, filed on Aug. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0046328 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 21/6332 (2011.01); H04N 21/4425 (2011.01)
CPC H04N 21/6332 (2013.01) [H04N 21/4425 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for ensuring media device stability, the system comprising:
a plurality of media devices, wherein each of said media devices, upon recovering from an unstable state that required the media device to restart, is adapted to collect metadata representative of the state and operation of the recovered media device prior to the media device becoming unstable;
at least one repository comprising at least one memory and at least one processor; and
at least one network linking the repository to the plurality of media devices;
wherein the at least one processor is adapted to:
receive, via the at least one network, a plurality of information transmissions, each of which originated from one of the plurality of media devices and comprises the collected metadata;
store the received plurality of information transmissions in the at least one memory;
analyze, upon determining that information transmissions have been received from a predetermined percentage of the plurality of media devices, the information within each received information transmission to identify commonalities;
identify the state of the media devices associated with the identified commonalities;
generate a command prohibiting each of the plurality of media devices from entering the identified state; and
transmit the generated command to the plurality of media devices via the at least one network.