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

Claim 13:
14. A non-transitory, tangible, computer-readable media having computer-readable instructions stored thereon, the computer-readable instructions being capable of being read by an apparatus in use with a headend media stream provider and being capable of instructing the apparatus to perform the method comprising:
requesting, via a communication component, a media stream from the headend media stream provider;
pulling, via the communication component, a chunk of unmodified media stream, the chunk of the unmodified media stream comprising at least a frame associated with an image;
transmitting the chunk of the unmodified media stream to a determining component;
determining, via the determining component, whether at least one frame of the chunk 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;
removing, via a filtering component, at least one frame from the chunk when that frame corresponds to a filler frame; and
transmitting, via the filtering component, a filtered media stream for display, the filtered media stream comprising the unmodified media stream without the removed at least one frame.