Gateway and method for operating a gateway
AssigneeEntropic Communications, Inc.
InventorsGlenn Chang, Brian Sprague, Madhukar Reddy
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Abstract
A satellite reception assembly may include a housing configured to support receipt and handling of a plurality of satellite signals. The housing may include circuitry incorporating integrated stacking architecture for supporting and/or providing channel and/or band stacking whereby particular channels or bands, from multiple satellite signals that are received via the satellite reception assembly, may be combined onto a single output signal that may be communicated from the satellite reception assembly to a gateway device for concurrent distribution thereby to a plurality of client devices serviced by the gateway device.
Claims31
1-20. (canceled)
A gateway, comprising:
- a transmitter configured to deliver requested content to a client device via an in-premises network, wherein the requested content is selected from a plurality of satellite television (TV) channels and other multimedia content;
- a satellite TV receiver configured to process a single wire input signal from a satellite reception assembly to provide the plurality of satellite TV channels to the transmitter;
- and
- a communication circuit, with two-way interactive capability, configured to access a communication link to provide the other multimedia content to the transmitter.
A method for operating a gateway, comprising:
- receiving from a client device, via the gateway, a request for content selected from a plurality of satellite television (TV) channels and other multimedia content;
- receiving from a satellite reception assembly, via a satellite TV receiver of the gateway, a single wire input signal comprising the plurality of satellite TV channels;
- accessing from a communication link, via a communication circuit of the gateway, the other multimedia content, wherein the communication link comprises a two-way interactive capability;
- providing the content requested by the client device from one or both:
- the single wire input, and
- the communication link;
- and
- delivering the content requested by the client device over an in-premises network via a transmitter of the gateway.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.