Method and system for toasted video distribution
AssigneeEchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
InventorsGreg Goldey, Casey Manuel Paiz, Kerry Phillip Langloys Miller, John Card, II, David Christopher St. John-Larkin, Scott Higgins, Hugh Aaron Selway, Daniel Mark Overbaugh
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Abstract
The systems and methods disclosed transmit a composite channel to a receiver. The composite channel may be a static channel that contains different original channels of content in different locations on a displayed page, or may be a dynamic channel that is processed by the receiver to display a multiple different video streams on a single display device.
Claims21
A method, comprising:
- simultaneously transmitting, by a satellite television distributor, to a converter device attached to a display device:
- a plurality of original channels, each original channel including high resolution video data and audio data;
- and
- at least one composite channel in the form of a dynamic channel, each composite channel including:
- video data of a plurality of low resolution video streams encoded as one channel, each low resolution video stream derived from an associated original channel, for which a composite display of the video data is renderable in conjunction with execution of an interactive software module that manages placement and selection of the plurality of low resolution video streams;
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- corresponding audio streams associated with each original channel, so as to permit a viewer of the display device to select a corresponding audio signal for any one of the displayed video data without changing the focus of the converter device;
- and
- repeatedly transmitting to the converter device the interactive software module that manages placement and selection of the plurality of low resolution video streams until the interactive software module is executed on the converter device in response to a user selection of the at least one composite channel.
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium having computer-executable instructions stored thereon for displaying a plurality of video streams on a single display device, the instructions, when executed by a microprocessor, causing a satellite television distributor to:
- transmit simultaneously to a converter device attached to the display device:
- a plurality of original channels, each original channel including high resolution video data and audio data;
- at least one composite channel, each composite channel including video data of a plurality of low resolution video streams encoded as one channel, each low resolution video stream derived from an associated original channel;
- and
- corresponding audio streams, associated with each original channel so as to permit a viewer of the display device to select a corresponding audio signal for any one of the displayed video channels without changing the focus of the converter device;
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- repeatedly transmit to the converter device an interactive software module that manages placement and selection of each of the low resolution video streams until the interactive software module is executed on the converter device in response to a user selection of the at least one composite channel.
A system for displaying a plurality of video streams on a single display device comprising:
- a memory;
- a converter device coupled to the display device;
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- a processor operably coupled to the memory, the processor configured to:
- transmit simultaneously to the converter device:
- a plurality of original channels, each original channel being a different stream of high resolution video, and
- at least one composite channel, in the form of a dynamic channel each composite channel including:
- video data of a plurality of low resolution video streams encoded as one channel and derived from one or more of the plurality of original channels for which a composite display of the video data is renderable in conjunction with execution of an interactive software module that manages placement and selection of the plurality of low resolution video streams;
- and
- corresponding audio streams, associated with each original channel so as to permit a viewer of the display device to select a corresponding audio signal for any one of the displayed video channels without changing the focus of the converter device;
- and
- repeatedly transmit to the converter device the interactive software module that manages placement and selection of the plurality of low resolution video streams until the interactive software module is executed on the converter device in response to a user selection of the at least one composite channel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.