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US 2016/0112827 A1Published application
Communications via a receiving device network
AssigneeEchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
InventorsPhuc H. Nguyen, Christopher William Bruhn
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AssigneeEchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
InventorsPhuc H. Nguyen, Christopher William Bruhn
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A receiving device system arranged to distribute voice communications includes first and second receiving devices, each having a personal area network (PAN) transceiver, a programming transceiver to receive multimedia content, and a local area network (LAN) transceiver. The second receiving device is configured to accept input data via its PAN transceiver from a communications device, initiate communications with the first receiving device via the LAN, and communicate voice data received via the second PAN transceiver to the first receiving device via the LAN. The voice data is passed to a communications device via the PAN transceiver of the first receiving device. Users associated with each of the two communications devices may carry on a voice conversation via voice data being passed through each of the two receiving devices.
A first receiving device to receive multimedia programming, the first receiving device configured to output video data and audio data to at least one presentation device, the first receiving device configured to communicate voice data between the first receiving device and a second receiving device, comprising:
A receiving device method, comprising:
A method to communicate voice data via a first receiving device using at least three non-overlapping networks, comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.