Patent ID: 11876600
Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A non-transitory computer readable medium having instructions operable to cause one or more processors to perform operations for switching from a radio frequency (RF) signal to an Internet Protocol (IP) connection based on rain fade events comprising:
receiving, on a server, current rain fade event data from one or more set-top boxes;
receiving, on the server, past rain fade event data from the one or more set-top boxes;
receiving, on the server, past weather data;
receiving, on the server, current weather data;
calculating, on the server, a likelihood of the one or more set-top boxes experiencing a rain fade event based on the current rain fade event data from the one or more set-top boxes, the past rain fade event data from the one or more set-top boxes, the past weather data, and the current weather data; and
sending, from the server, an IP message to switch from the radio frequency (RF) signal to the Internet Protocol (IP) connection to each of the one or more set-top boxes likely to experience the rain fade event before the rain fade event occurs.