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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2014
Method and apparatus to broadcast content to handheld wireless devices via digital set-top receivers
Applicant:
Fathy Yassa, Soquel, CA (US);
Inventor:
Fathy Yassa, Soquel, CA (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/16 (2010.12); H04N 21/434 (2010.12); H04N 21/4363 (2010.12); H04N 21/41 (2010.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/163 (2012.12); H04N 21/4126 (2012.12); H04N 21/4344 (2012.12); H04N 21/43637 (2012.12);
Abstract
Delivery of programming from a content provider to one or more hand held devices is effected via a set-top box (STB). The STB receives a transport stream, recognizes and de-multiplexes out a co-cast content association table containing a list of all available co-cast programming, and broadcasts table to the one or more hand held devices. Each hand held device displays the list and a program therefrom is selected. The selection is transmitted to the STB, which de-multiplexes out the selection from the delivered programming, and re-multiplexes the requested co-cast programming into a transport stream for broadcast to the requesting hand held device.