System and a method for distributing content via static channel assignment in a mobile content gateway

Abstract

A method for distributing video content to at least one mobile device (-) at a customer premises () system comprising a plurality of stationary devices (-) capable of receiving the video content from at least one content provider (). The method comprises the steps of: receiving, at the stationary devices (-), requests to tune a tuner () of the stationary device (-) to a requested channel received from the content provider (); outputting the content, of the channel tuned to by at least one stationary device (-), to a mobile content gateway () at the customer premises () system; handling, at the mobile content gateway (), a list of video channels () comprising data associating each channel of the list with a stationary device (-); sending, from the mobile content gateway (), to the at least one stationary device (-) requests to tune to channels assigned according to the list of video channels (); preparing at least one single-program stream from the content received from the at least one stationary device (-); outputting, from the mobile content gateway (), the at least one single-program stream as at least one adaptive stream; and providing the at least one adaptive stream to the at least one mobile device (-) over a wireless data transmission interface.