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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 11, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 04, 2019
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Megha Venugopal, Union City, CA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that includes receiving, by a processing system at a first premises, a request from a second premises for a channel signal to be obtained from a first signal received via a satellite dish system; the request specifies one channel provided by the satellite dish system. The method also includes converting the first signal to generate a converted signal, and encrypting and modulating the converted signal to generate a second signal; the modulating is performed by a first transceiver at the first premises, and the second signal includes the requested channel signal. The method further includes transmitting the second signal to a second transceiver at the second premises; the second transceiver demodulates and decrypts the encrypted second signal to provide the requested channel signal at equipment at the second premises. Other embodiments are disclosed.