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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2018
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., Hunt Valley, MD (US);
Frederick M. Baumgartner, Elizabeth, CO (US);
Michael J. Simon, Frederick, MD (US);
William Soreth, Cockeysville, MD (US);
Thomas Ian Hoots, Towson, MD (US);
Marshall Hans Behrmann, York, PA (US);
Louis Herbert Libin, Woodmere, NY (US);
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., Hunt Valley, MD (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for relaying in broadcast single-frequency networks are disclosed herein. A single-frequency network can be formed in part using transmitters that receive data via a cooperative relay channel instead of a studio-to-transmitter link. In some embodiments, transmitter may use a portion of its transmission time to relay in-band information to the single-frequency network transmitter using time-division multiplexing.