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US 8,135,334 B2Granted
Methods, systems, and computer program products for transmitting streaming media to a mobile terminal using the bandwidth associated with a wireless network
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsJoseph Patrick Dennisson, Timothy Hope, Ron Perrella, Ryan Lee Schaub, John Blake Slemmer
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Abstract
A communication network is operated by obtaining a subscription at a wireless network from at least one device for a rebroadcast of streaming media and rebroadcasting the streaming media to the at least one device using the wireless network responsive to obtaining the subscription.
Claims18
A method of operating a communication network, comprising:
- obtaining a subscription from at least one device for a rebroadcast of streaming media;
- and
- rebroadcasting the streaming media via a base station transceiver to the at least one device responsive to obtaining the subscription;
- obtaining authorization from a media broadcaster that provides the streaming media to rebroadcast the streaming media prior to rebroadcasting the streaming media.
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A communication system, comprising:
- a network that is configured to obtain a subscription from at least one device for a rebroadcast of streaming media and to rebroadcast the streaming media via a base station transceiver to the at least one device responsive to obtaining the subscription;
- wherein the network is further configured to obtain authorization from a media broadcaster that provides the streaming media to rebroadcast the streaming media prior to rebroadcasting the streaming media.
An article of manufacture for operating a communication network comprising:
- a non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code comprising:
- computer readable program code configured to obtain a subscription from at least one device for a rebroadcast of streaming media;
- and
- computer readable program code configured to rebroadcast the streaming media via a base station transceiver to the at least one device responsive to obtaining the subscription;
- obtaining authorization from a media broadcaster that provides the streaming media to rebroadcast the streaming media prior to rebroadcasting the streaming media.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.