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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2015
At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp, Atlanta, GA (US);
Hisao Chang, Medina, MN (US);
Javier Arellano, Round Rock, TX (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a system and method permit an IPTV subscriber to display on a channel of an IPTV network video data from a subscriber video database. The system may include, in addition to the IPTV network and the subscriber database, an IPTV server and an IPTV set top box. The IPTV set top box is configured to receive commands causing the IPTV set top box to retrieve video data from an IPTV subscriber database, display the video data on an IPTV display unit; and to transmit the video data over an IPTV network to an IPTV server. The IPTV server is configured to transmit the video data from the IPTV server over the IPTV network such that the video data is displayable on a channel of the IPTV network.