Cellco Partnership

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Te-Sheng Lin

John Gu

Lily F Chen

Xin Ren

Roman Krzanowski

Young Rak Choi

Quentin N Robinson

Kevin Donnellan

Samuel Akiwumi-Assani

Muxiang Zhang

To allow a user to temporarily move access to premium content to another location, e.g. outside the vicinity of the home, while adequately protecting the rights of a broadcast content provider, the various examples implement a transfer of an object for an identified right of content usage between premium content reproduction devices and a mobile device. The mobile device enables such transfer to support viewing of the premium content by a user outside of the user's home.

Take it with you premium video content

A device may receive information that identifies available content associated with multicast streams available for transmission via a network. The device may determine content selected from the available content. The selected content may be associated with a multicast stream available for transmission via the network. The device may receive the multicast stream associated with the selected content via an air interface. The device may process the multicast stream into a format compatible with a connection interface. The device may output the processed multicast stream to a display device, that is different from the device, via the connection interface.

Streaming multicast content to a television via a mobile device

A device may be configured to store interactive program guide (IPG) data for generating an IPG. The IPG data may include information related to a media content service for providing media content and including information related to a home automation service for managing a home device. The device may receive input information from a media client device that causes display of the IPG. The input information may indicate an input related to the home device. The device may generate a part of the IPG related to the home automation service based on the input information and a part of the IPG data. The device may obtain home device information from a management server based on the input information. The device may provide the home device information and the part of the IPG to the media client device for display.

Streaming an interactive program guide used for media content and home automation

A device is configured to receive a request to provide data traffic associated with a user device. The device is configured to determine network information associated with a set of networks. The device may be associated with a small cell long term evolution ('LTE') network, which may connect to the set of networks. The set of networks may include a macro cell LTE network and a fiber optic network. The network information may include information that identifies a condition of the set of networks. The device is configured to identify a particular network, of the set of networks, based on the network information, and provide the data traffic, via the small cell LTE network and the particular network, based on identifying the particular network.

Cell device for multi-network communication

A system may include a group of user devices; and one or more base stations configured to receive programming content from a content provider, and distribute the received programming content, via a broadcast or multicast technique, to the group of user devices. A particular user device, of the group of user devices, may receive distributed programming content, and output, to device that is external to the user device, the programming content received from the particular base station.

Ultra high-fidelity content delivery using a mobile device as a media gateway

A master video server may deliver video streams to multiple sub-master video servers pursuant to the request of each sub-master video server. Each sub-master video server, in turn, may deliver video steams to multiple slave video servers pursuant to the request of each slave video server. Each sub-master video server may also deliver video streams to one or more other sub-master video servers pursuant to the request of each of the other sub-master video servers.

Distributed content delivery network architecture

An approach for enabling load efficient delivery of updates and other content to mobile devices is described. A device management platform determines to communicate with a mobile device configured to operate over a cellular network and a local area network, wherein the local area network includes a customer premise gateway. The device management platform also initiates establishment of a multicast session with the mobile device via the customer premise gateway and over the local area network.

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