Digital over-the-air entertainment system and method for operating the same
View Patent ↗A system and method of distributing electronic content includes a network operations center communicating national feeds to an over-the-air broadcast center through a satellite. The over-the-air broadcast center receives the national feeds from the satellite and broadcasts the national feeds to a user device through a cellular tower wireless transmitter.
1. A method comprising:
communicating national feeds to an over-the-air broadcast center from a network operations center through a satellite;
receiving the national feeds at the over-the-air broadcast center from the satellite;
encoding the national feeds prior to transmission through a cell tower to form encoded national feeds;
broadcasting the encoded national feeds through a cell tower wireless transmitter; and
receiving the encoded national feeds at a user device.
2. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising encoding local feeds to form encoded local feeds at the over-the-air broadcast center and encoding national feeds to form encoded national feeds at the over-the-air broadcast center.
3. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein receiving the national feeds comprises receiving the national feeds at a mobile user device.
4. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein receiving the national feeds comprises receiving the national feeds at a fixed user device.
5. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein receiving the national feeds comprises receiving the national feeds at a satellite televisions set top box.
6. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein receiving the national feeds comprises receiving encrypted national feeds and further comprising communicating a decryption key to the user device and decrypting the national feeds with the decryption key.
7. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein prior to broadcasting multiplexing the national feeds.
8. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein broadcasting the national feeds comprises broadcasting the national feeds in excess bandwidth of a digital television signal.
9. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising broadcasting a menu from the over-the-air broadcast center to the user device through the cell tower wireless transmitter.
10. A method comprising:
encoding national feeds for communication through a satellite at a network operations center to form satellite-encoded national feeds;
communicating the satellite-encoded national feeds to the satellite from the network operations center;
receiving the satellite-encoded national feeds at an over-the-air broadcast center;
decoding the satellite-encoded national feeds at the over-the-air broadcast center;
re-encoding the national feeds to form re-encoded national feeds at the over-the-air broadcast center for transmission through a cell tower wireless transmitter;
broadcasting the re-encoded national feeds through the cell tower wireless transmitter; and
receiving the re-encoded national feeds at a user device.
11. The method as recited in claim 10 further comprising encoding local feeds at the over-the-air broadcast center to form encoded local feeds.
12. The method as recited in claim 11 wherein broadcasting comprising broadcasting the re-encoded national feeds and the encoded local feeds.
13. The method as recited in claim 10 wherein receiving the re-encoded national feeds comprises receiving the re-encoded national feeds at a mobile user device.
14. The method as recited in claim 10 wherein receiving the re-encoded national feeds comprises receiving the re-encoded national feeds at a fixed user device.
15. The method as recited in claim 10 wherein receiving the re-encoded national feeds comprises receiving the re-encoded national feeds at a satellite televisions set top box.
16. The method as recited in claim 10 further comprising communicating a decryption key to the user device and decrypting the re-encoded national feeds with the decryption key.
17. The method as recited in claim 10 wherein prior to broadcasting multiplexing the re-encoded national feeds.
18. The method as recited in claim 10 wherein broadcasting comprises broadcasting the re-encoded national feeds in excess bandwidth of a digital television signal.
19. The method as recited in claim 10 further comprising broadcasting a menu from the over-the-air broadcast center to the user device.
20. A system comprising:
a network operations center communicating national feeds to an over-the-air broadcast center through a satellite;
an encoder encoding the national feeds prior to transmission through a cell tower to form encoded national feeds; and
the over-the-air broadcast center receiving the encoded national feeds from the satellite and broadcasting the encoded national feeds to a user device through a cell tower wireless transmitter.
21. The system as recited in claim 20 wherein the over-the-air broadcast center receives local feeds and the national feeds comprises encoded national feeds.
22. The system as recited in claim 20 wherein the user device comprises a mobile user device.
23. The system as recited in claim 20 wherein the user device comprises a fixed user device.
24. The system as recited in claim 20 wherein the user device comprises a satellite television set top box.
25. The system as recited in claim 20 wherein the national feeds comprise encrypted national feeds and wherein the over-the-air broadcast center communicates a decryption key to the user device and the user device decrypts the encrypted national feeds with the decryption key.
26. The system as recited in claim 20 wherein the over-the-air broadcast center comprises a multiplexer multiplexing the national feeds.
27. The system as recited in claim 20 wherein the over-the-air broadcast center broadcasts the national feeds in excess bandwidth of a digital television signal.
28. The system as recited in claim 20 wherein the over-the-air broadcast center broadcasts a menu to the user device.