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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:
Oct. 03, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 29, 2014
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, Lp, Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Robert Johnston, Atlanta, GA (US);

Larry Kennedy, Lawrence, KS (US);

Kirk Kingsmill, Duluth, GA (US);

Assignee:

AT&T MOBILITY II LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04N 21/234 (2011.01); H04N 7/173 (2011.01); H04N 21/2343 (2011.01); H04N 21/61 (2011.01); H04N 21/643 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 65/60 (2013.01); H04N 7/17318 (2013.01); H04N 21/234 (2013.01); H04N 21/23439 (2013.01); H04N 21/234309 (2013.01); H04N 21/6125 (2013.01); H04N 21/64322 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a media distribution device having a support structure adapted for removably receiving a server module, a plurality of encoders, and an Internet Protocol (IP) router module; and a bus adapted for placing the server module, the plurality of video encoders, and the IP router module in communication with each other, where the server module is adapted to receive media content, where the plurality of video encoders is adapted to generate a plurality of encoded media contents from the media content and the video encoders generate the encoded media contents in temporal proximity to each other, where the IP router module is adapted to distribute the plurality of encoded media contents over an IP network. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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