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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 16, 2009
Abraham Krieger, San Diego, CA (US);
Laurence Alan Strong, Bristol, GB;
Mats Lindstrom, San Diego, CA (US);
Sadashiv Vinayak Phadnis, San Diego, CA (US);
Yoav P. Goldenberg, Kiryat Byalik, IL;
Abraham Krieger, San Diego, CA (US);
Laurence Alan Strong, Bristol, GB;
Mats Lindstrom, San Diego, CA (US);
Sadashiv Vinayak Phadnis, San Diego, CA (US);
Yoav P. Goldenberg, Kiryat Byalik, IL;
Entropic Communications, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A media receiver hub receives wireless signals from multiple sources (e.g., satellite signals from multiple satellites) and provides the signals to end devices over a local network. According to an example embodiment, a satellite hub is responsive to channel input selections received from end devices by selecting channels from within received satellite signals, and by converting each channel into a format amenable for delivery to and use at an end device requesting the channel. The converted channels are communicated to the end devices over a network that also facilitates communications between the devices, by restricting the communications to using a portion of the available bandwidth of the network, reserving bandwidth for communications with and/or between the end devices (or other network devices).