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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:
Dec. 07, 2010

Filed:

Jul. 15, 2004
Applicant:

David Baran, Atherton, CA (US);

Inventor:

David Baran, Atherton, CA (US);

Assignee:

GoBack TV, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/173 (2006.01); H04L 12/66 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Highly asymmetrical nature of digital video allows a single Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) like device to support the transmission over a thousand individual high-quality IP packetized video data channels terminating into low cost cable modem units. A Video Modem Terminating System (VMTS) unit handles housekeeping information. As the amount of upstream housekeeping data are small, even for 1000 simultaneous TV channels, the data can be inserted into the digital video cell streams and packaged within IP packet envelopes. The VMTS unit is equally effective for MPEG-2, MPEG-4, Microsoft Media 9 and other digital encoding of video and audio signals.


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