Return path for broadcast system and method
AssigneeTrilogy 5G, Inc.
InventorsJohn Vetter, Imran Syed
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Abstract
A broadcast system may have an out of band return path and the out of band return path may be used for communications with digital services provided by the broadcast system. For example, the broadcast system may provide a file transfer digital service to a user of the broadcast system and the out of band return path may be used to communicate acknowledgments back to the broadcast system during a file transfer process. In one implementation, the broadcast system may be an Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television broadcast system. A method for using the out of band return path to interact with the digital service is disclosed.
Claims16
A digital services system, comprising:
- an Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC 3.0) a television broadcast system that broadcasts a signal to a plurality of devices;
- each of the plurality of devices being configured to receive and consume the broadcast signal from the ATSC 3.0 television broadcast system;
- the broadcast signal including a digital service and wherein at least one device is configured to consume the digital service;
- a return path out of band from the ATSC 3.0 television broadcast system;
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- wherein the at least one device further comprises a processor, memory and a plurality of lines of instructions executed by the processor so that the at least one device is configured to send an acknowledgement of receipt of the digital service over the out of band return path to the ATSC 3.0 television broadcast system.
A method for communicating using an broadcast television system for broadcast television digital services, the method comprising:
- communicating data for a digital service from an Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC 3.0) a broadcast television system to a plurality of devices that are configured to receive the broadcast signal from the ATSC 3.0 broadcast television system;
- sending, by at least one device that received the digital service from the ATSC 3.0 broadcast television system via the return path that is out of band from the ATSC 3.0 broadcast television system, a response from the at least one device back to the ATSC 3.0 broadcast television system;
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- completing the digital service for the at least one device based on the sent response from the at least one device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.