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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2007

Filed:

Apr. 26, 2001
Applicants:

Erin H. Sibley, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Michael W. Sales, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Inventors:

Erin H. Sibley, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Michael W. Sales, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Assignee:

The DIRECTV Group, Inc., El Segundo, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04Q 7/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A system of distributing electronic content has a network operations center generating a broadcast signal having digital electronic content. A communication backbone is coupled to the network operations center. A base station receives the broadcast signal from the backbone. The base station receives the broadcast signal and forms a wireless local area network. The base station rebroadcasts at least a portion of the broadcast signal as a rebroadcast signal using the wireless local network. A user appliance is positioned with said local area network and receives the rebroadcast signal.


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