System and method of receiving over-the-air television content
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsScott White, James Cansler
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Abstract
A method and apparatus of receiving over-the-air television content is disclosed and includes receiving input at a media processor. The media processor is coupled to a presentation device and includes processing logic and memory storing instructions executable by the processing logic to perform operations including sending a control command to the presentation device via a second interface having a data connection where the control command instructs the presentation device to tune an over-the-air tuner at the presentation device to a requested channel and receiving the over-the-air television content from the over-the-air tuner in the presentation device via the data connection. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving input at a media processor coupled to a presentation device via a connection to send control data to, and receive data from, the presentation device, wherein the connection comprises a high-definition multimedia interface connection;
- sending a control command from the media processor to the presentation device via the connection, wherein the control command indicates that the presentation device is to tune an over-the-air tuner at the presentation device to a requested channel, and wherein the control command indicates that the presentation device is to send television content associated with the requested channel to the media processor via the connection or that the presentation device is to output television content associated with the requested channel at the presentation device;
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- receiving over-the-air television content at the media processor via the connection from the presentation device in accordance with the control command.
A media processor, comprising:
- a first interface for sending television content from a first television source to a presentation device via a first connection;
- a second interface to send data to, and receive data from, the presentation device via a data connection separate from the first connection and to receive over-the-air television content from the presentation device via the data connection, wherein the data connection is a second connection, and wherein the second connection comprises a high-definition multimedia interface connection;
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- processing logic and memory accessible to the processing logic, wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the processing logic to perform operations comprising:
- sending a control command to the presentation device via the second interface, wherein the control command instructs the presentation device to tune an over-the-air tuner at the presentation device to a requested channel;
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- receiving the over-the-air television content from the over-the-air tuner in the presentation device via the data connection.
A presentation device, comprising:
- an over-the-air tuner;
- a first interface to receive television content from a media processor via a first connection;
- a second interface to exchange data with the media processor via a data connection separate from the first connection and further to send television content via the data connection to the media processor, wherein the data connection comprises a high-definition multimedia interface connection;
- processing logic and memory accessible to the processing logic, the memory comprising instructions executable by the processing logic to perform operations comprising:
- receiving a control command from the media processor via the second interface, wherein the presentation device is to receive the television content associated with a requested channel from a broadcast source via the over-the-air tuner;
- tuning the over-the-air tuner to the requested channel;
- transmitting over-the-air television content to the media processor via the data connection;
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- outputting the television content at the presentation device in response to the control command indicating that television content received via the over-the-air tuner is to be output at the presentation device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.