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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
May. 24, 2001
Indra Laksono, Richmond Hill, CA;
Indra Laksono, Richmond Hill, CA;
VIXS, Inc., Toronto, CA;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for providing multimedia services to a local area network includes processing that begins by receiving a plurality of channels from at least one multimedia source. The processing continues by receiving selection requests from at least one client module via a communication path. The processing continues by generating a set of channel select commands from the select request. The processing continues by selecting a set of channels from the plurality of channels based on the set of channel select commands. The processing continues by mixing the set of channels into a stream of channel data. The processing then continues by transmitting the stream of channel data via the communication path to the at least one client module such that each client associated with a client module receives the channel data for the respective channels that they had selected.