Patent ID: 9237381
Filing Date: 2016-01-12
CPC Classification: H04H,H04N

Claim Text:
1. A system configured to distribute at least one of public, education or government content, said system comprising: a content distribution network configured to provide a digital multiplex of a plurality of program streams to a node on said content distribution network; a local content insertion device disposed at said node and in signal communication with said content distribution network; a receiver disposed at a premises of a user of said content distribution network, said receiver in signal communication with said local content insertion device and configured to receive content from said node; and a channel map comprising a plurality of associations between a plurality of channel assignments, quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) frequency parameters, and program identifiers (PID), said channel map configured to assign at least one program stream of said multiplex of streams to a first channel assignment, wherein analog local content is represented by a predetermined second channel assignment; wherein said local content insertion device is configured to replace said at least one program stream of said digital multiplex of streams with an analog local program stream input to said local content insertion device, by being configured to: wherein said channel map is further configured to replace said first channel assignment with said predetermined second channel assignment based at least in part on said replacement of said at least one program stream with said local program stream.