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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:
Jul. 14, 2015

Filed:

Apr. 27, 2009
Applicants:

Dilip Krishnaswamy, San Diego, CA (US);

Vijayalakshmi R. Raveendran, San Diego, CA (US);

Robert S. Daley, Del Mar, CA (US);

Inventors:

Dilip Krishnaswamy, San Diego, CA (US);

Vijayalakshmi R. Raveendran, San Diego, CA (US);

Robert S. Daley, Del Mar, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 20/08 (2008.01); H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04H 20/42 (2008.01); H04H 60/92 (2008.01); H04W 4/06 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04H 20/08 (2013.01); H04W 72/02 (2013.01); H04H 20/42 (2013.01); H04H 60/92 (2013.01); H04W 4/06 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

In various embodiments, communication apparatus and methods for providing robust communications are disclosed. For example, an exemplary communication apparatus for distributing media to one or more receiving apparatus may include receiving circuitry to receive a first wireless multimedia broadcast signal containing at least a first media stream, transmitting circuitry to wirelessly transmit one or more individual media streams simultaneously to the one or more receiving apparatus using one or more wireless transmit signals, and decision circuitry configured to control the transmitting circuitry to transmit the first media stream to at least one receiving apparatus using at least one wireless transmit signal type based on a forward-link data capacity of each wireless channel between the transmitting circuitry and each receiving apparatus.


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