Dish Network LLC

Dish Wireless L.l.c.

Aram Semerjyan

Shiqiang Chu

Kan Man Wong

Manuel Novoa, Iii

Derick Wong

Anthony Bond

Michael Song

Vishal Neeralike

Anthony Kallas

Eric Palmer

Systems, methods, and non-transitory, machine-readable media to facilitate streaming in a local network with a client-server architecture are disclosed. A configuration tool may configure a primary media device to perform operations with respect to a local network. The configuration tool may be adapted to communicatively couple with the primary media device via at least one interface of the one or more interfaces to configure the primary media device to perform the operations with respect to the local network. The primary media device may be configured with the configuration tool to operate as a server in the local network, receive first audio/video (A/V) content via an Internet connection and/or a satellite network connection, and receive second A/V content via the Internet connection and/or the satellite network connection.

Devices for facilitating streaming in a local network with a client-server architecture

Systems, methods, and non-transitory, machine-readable media to facilitate streaming in a local network are disclosed. A primary media device may be configured to: operate as a server in a local network, receive audio/video (A/V) content, and provide the A/V content to a first display. A secondary media device may be communicatively connected to the primary media device and may be configured to: operate as a client with respect to the primary media device in the local network, receive the A/V content from the primary media device, and provide the A/V content to a second display. The primary media device and the secondary media device may use multiple subnets in the local network. The primary media device and/or the secondary media device may select a first subnet of the multiple subnets to use based at least in part on a type of content to communicate via the first subnet.

Systems and methods for facilitating streaming in a local network with multiple subnets

Introduced here are systems to manage and discover a processing offloader. A first multimedia device may identify a processing offloader in a networked environment. A first multimedia device may determine that a bandwidth of a second multimedia device in the networked environment falls below a threshold bandwidth, indicating that the second multimedia device may process instructions and render multimedia information with increased latency or delay. Based on this determination, the first multimedia device may forward instructions from the second multimedia device to the processing offloader for the processing offloader to process and render multimedia information on behalf of the second multimedia device based on the received instructions. The first multimedia device may forward rendered multimedia information from the processing offloader to the second multimedia device, and the second multimedia device may output the rendered multimedia information to an output device.

Methods and systems for discovery of a processing offloader

Methods and systems for management of a processing offloader

Various arrangements for facilitating digital content in multi-network television receiver communication systems are provided. A general network access point can provide access to a general network. A private network access point can provide access to a private network. Credentials for accessing the private network are distributed by a primary television receiver configured to determine that a secondary television receiver is connected to the general network via the general network access point. In response, the primary television receiver transmits, via the general network, credentials configured to enable the secondary television receiver to access the private network via the private network access point to the secondary television receiver. The primary television receiver is further configured to transmit, via the private network, digital media content to the secondary television receiver.

Wireless network allocation in television content receiver systems

Disclosed are methods for supplementing the processing capabilities of multimedia devices in a networked environment. A method can include providing a processing offloader module to physically connect to a first multimedia device in the networked environment. The offloader can be internal and/or external to the device. The method can include identifying the offloader, identifying a second multimedia device, and determining that a bandwidth of the second device falls below a threshold bandwidth. Instructions can be forwarded from the second device to the offloader when the bandwidth of the second device exceeds the threshold bandwidth. The offloader is configured to process the instructions and render multimedia information based on the instructions. A first communication can be transmitted to the second multimedia device indicating a request to enable a proxy configured to output received rendered multimedia information and the rendered multimedia information can be forwarded from the offloader to the second device.

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Aurora, CO, United States of America

Aram Semerjyan