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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2013
Filed:
May. 10, 2011
Sean Gordon Higgins, Saint John, CA;
Derek Joseph Tobias Billingsley, Saint John, CA;
Jeffrey Louis Furlong, Rothesay, CA;
Jared David Mcneill, Nepean, CA;
Sean Gordon Higgins, Saint John, CA;
Derek Joseph Tobias Billingsley, Saint John, CA;
Jeffrey Louis Furlong, Rothesay, CA;
Jared David McNeill, Nepean, CA;
Encore Interactive Inc., New Brunswick, CA;
Abstract
A system that delivers live broadcast media to consumer devices, including a system for enabling devices without native capabilities such as internal bulk storage and stream processing, to have command and control of live broadcast streams, has been provided. This is achieved through intercepting and converting the normal service provider channel mapping data to a new channel map which points to a software system that delivers command and control of live broadcast media, and implementation of a software system which can receive a channel change protocol, establish a command and control session with the device, convert the channel map protocol to the original format, tune in, receive, convert and process the live stream so that it can be delivered to the requesting device and in turn be controlled by user interaction with that device or the software system. A corresponding method is also provided.