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

Claim 7:
8. A method of using customer premises equipment with a headend media stream provider, said 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 plurality of frames;
transmitting the chunk of the unmodified media stream to a determining component;
determining, via the determining component, whether at least one of the frames 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, the one or more frames corresponding to filler frames; and
transmitting, via the filtering component, a filtered media stream for display, the filtered media stream comprising the unmodified media stream without the removed one or more frames.