Method and apparatus for delivering media content and backup media content using multiple networks
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorChristopher F. Baldwin
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Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, providing a content stream to a media processor over a first network where the content stream comprises first media content, evaluating a quality of the first media content according to a quality threshold, and responsive to a determination that the quality of the first media content does not satisfy the quality threshold, providing to a cellular device second media content over a multicast-broadcast single-frequency network channel of a cellular network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Claims20
A device comprising:
- a processing system including a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- receiving, over a first network, first media content;
- monitoring signals of a second network resulting in monitored signals;
- determining the monitored signals obtained from the second network satisfies a quality threshold;
- and
- switching to a default frequency channel of a multicast-broadcast single-frequency network of the second network responsive to a first determination that quality of the first media content over the first network does not satisfy the quality threshold and the monitored signals satisfy the quality threshold.
A machine-readable storage device, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- obtaining, over a first network, first media content;
- detecting signals of a second network resulting in detected signals;
- evaluating a quality of the first media content according to a quality threshold, wherein the evaluating the quality of the first media content is based on a signal-to-noise ratio analysis;
- determining the detected signals obtained from the second network satisfies the quality threshold;
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- switching to a default frequency channel of a multicast-broadcast single-frequency network of the second network responsive to a first determination that the quality of the first media content over the first network does not satisfy the quality threshold and the detected signals satisfy the quality threshold.
A method, comprising:
- obtaining, by a processing system including processor, over a first network, first media content;
- monitoring, by the processing system, signals of a second network resulting in monitored signals;
- determining, by the processing system, the monitored signals obtained from the second network satisfies a quality threshold;
- switching, by the processing system, to a default frequency channel of a multicast-broadcast single-frequency network of the second network responsive to a first determination that quality of the first media content over the first network does not satisfy the quality threshold and the monitored signals satisfy the quality threshold;
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- receiving, by the processing system, via a cellular device, second media content over the default frequency channel.
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