Patent ID: 11902621
Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. An apparatus for use with a headend media stream provider, said apparatus comprising:
a communication component operable to request a media stream from the headend media stream provider, the media stream comprising a plurality of frames;
a determining component operable to receive the requested media stream, unmodified, from the communication component and determine whether at least one frame of the acquired frames of the media stream corresponds to a filler frame, the filler frame being a frame inserted into the media stream by the headend media stream provider so as to prepend the media stream; and
a filtering component operable on the unmodified media stream to remove at least one frame from the unmodified media stream determined to correspond to a filler frame and transmit a filtered media stream for display, the filtered media stream comprising the unmodified media stream without the removed at least one frame.