Sling Media Inc.

Echostar Technologies Corporation

Raghuveer Tarra

Parimal Bajpai

Jason Gary Krikorian

Blake Gary Krikorian

Vijayachandran Velliyan Mariappan

Bhupendra Natwerlal Shah

Ilya Asnis

Padmanabha R Rao

David Randolph Eyler

Harsha Saagi

Sharath Harihapur Satheesh

Alexander Gurzhi

Bhupendra Natwerial Shah

Bhupendra Shah

Systems, methods and devices are described to encode, deliver and playback a placeshifted media stream via the Internet or another network. The media stream is appropriately encoded at a quality level (e.g., at a bit rate, frame rate, resolution, etc.) that allows content to be delivered faster than it is played back. This sort of 'faster than real time' encoding allows the placeshifted media stream to be buffered at the remote device for more effective performance.

Placeshifting live encoded video faster than real time

A personal media broadcasting system enables video distribution over a computer network and allows a user to view and control media sources over a computer network from a remote location. A personal broadcaster receives an input from one or more types of media sources, digitizes and compresses the content, and streams the compressed media over a computer network to a media player running on any of a wide range of client devices for viewing the media. The system may allow the user to issue control commands (e.g., 'channel up') from the media player to the broadcaster, causing the source device to execute the commands. The broadcaster and the media player may employ several techniques for buffering, transmitting, and viewing the content to improve the user's experience.

Personal media broadcasting system with output buffer

Various methods and devices provide place shifting of a media stream to a remote device while also providing network functionality for a local area network (LAN) and/or a wide area network (WAN). The gateway includes a media interface for receiving audio/visual (A/V) signals from the media source, as well as interfaces to the LAN and/or the WAN. A media streaming module receives the A/V signals from the media interface and processes the received A/V signals to thereby create the media stream. A modem module receives the media stream from the media streaming module via a dedicated connection, network switch and/or other connection, and transmits the media stream to the remote device via at least one of the first and second network interfaces.

Media streaming device with gateway functionality

To update firmware on a consumer device intelligently, two or more application images are stored as firmware on the consumer device. If the primary application image is corrupt, the back-up application image is executed on the consumer device. The back-up application image can be updated based on the primary application image. User configuration files can be preserved during the update of an application image, or they can be overwritten. This firmware updating scheme can be advantageously implemented in a personal media broadcasting system.

Firmware update for consumer electronic device

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Raghuveer Tarra