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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 11818412 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023

Filed:

Dec. 23, 2019

Methods and systems for supplementing set-top box processing with additional processor resources

Applicant:

Dish Network L.l.c., Englewood, CO (US);

Inventors:

Manuel Novoa, III, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);

Kan Man Wong, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);

Vishal Neeralike, Lone Tree, CO (US);

Shiqiang Chu, Highlands Ranch, CO (US);

Aram Semerjyan, Aurora, CO (US);

Anthony Bond, Arvada, CO (US);

Michael Song, Aurora, CO (US);

Anthony Kallas, Aurora, CO (US);

Derick Wong, Aurora, CO (US);

Assignee:

DISH Network L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US);

Attorney:

Perkins Coie LLP

Primary Examiner:

Hitesh Patel

Assistant Examiner:

Sujana Khakural

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2662 (2011.01); H04N 21/418 (2011.01); H04N 21/222 (2011.01); H04N 21/24 (2011.01); H04N 21/44 (2011.01); H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04N 21/233 (2011.01); H04N 21/439 (2011.01); H04N 21/431 (2011.01); H04N 21/436 (2011.01); H04N 21/442 (2011.01); H04N 21/443 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/2662 (2013.01); H04N 21/222 (2013.01); H04N 21/233 (2013.01); H04N 21/234 (2013.01); H04N 21/2402 (2013.01); H04N 21/431 (2013.01); H04N 21/436 (2013.01); H04N 21/439 (2013.01); H04N 21/4312 (2013.01); H04N 21/44 (2013.01); H04N 21/443 (2013.01); H04N 21/44227 (2013.01); H04N 21/44245 (2013.01); H04N 21/4516 (2013.01); H04N 21/6193 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed are methods for supplementing the processing capabilities of multimedia devices in a networked environment. A method can include providing a processing offloader module to physically connect to a first multimedia device in the networked environment. The offloader can be internal and/or external to the device. The method can include identifying the offloader, identifying a second multimedia device, and determining that a bandwidth of the second device falls below a threshold bandwidth. Instructions can be forwarded from the second device to the offloader when the bandwidth of the second device exceeds the threshold bandwidth. The offloader is configured to process the instructions and render multimedia information based on the instructions. A first communication can be transmitted to the second multimedia device indicating a request to enable a proxy configured to output received rendered multimedia information and the rendered multimedia information can be forwarded from the offloader to the second device.

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