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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2006
Thomas Anthony Stahl, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Qingjiang Tian, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Robert Andrew Rhodes, Carmel, IN (US);
Thomas Anthony Stahl, Indianapolis, IN (US);
Qingjiang Tian, West Lafayette, IN (US);
Robert Andrew Rhodes, Carmel, IN (US);
THOMSON LICENSING, Boulogne-Billancourt, FR;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for wirelessly re-distributing multi-media streams, including receiving multi-media streams at a master device from a source, adaptively determining channel time allocations in response to status information for transmit queues and transmission channel conditions, constructing a superframe from said multi-media streams for insertion into said downstream channel time allocations and wireless transmitting the channel time allocations to effect re-distribution of said multi-media streams to a remote device, are described. Also described is a method for wirelessly receiving re-distributed a multi-media stream including receiving a beacon signal and a channel time allocation and receiving said re-distributed multi-media stream.