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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2021
Filed:
May. 28, 2020
Dish Network L.l.c., Englewood, CO (US);
Mark John Sokald, Roxborough, CO (US);
Jason Paul Carlson, Denver, CO (US);
Seth Byerley, Parker, CO (US);
Yunfeng Yang, Aurora, CO (US);
John Huynh, Thornton, CO (US);
Gowtham Ram Ramkumar, Englewood, CO (US);
DISH Network L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);
Abstract
Devices, systems, and processes for facilitating seamless use of tuners across multiple devices within a LAN are described and may include use of a first user device, communicatively coupled to the LAN, that includes a first hardware processor configured to execute first, non-transient, computer instructions for facilitating a first seamless tuner engine configured to identify at least one first tuner. A second user device, communicatively coupled to the LAN, may include a second hardware processor configured to execute second, non-transient, computer instructions for facilitating a second seamless tuner configured to identify at least one second tuner. At least one of, if not each, of seamless tuner engines may be configured to generate a universal tuner directory identifying availability of each the tuners. The universal tuner directory may be populated and tuners allocated based upon an emergency broadcast, auto-tune, PPV, original content, re-run, or Joey request type.