Patent ID: 9554180
Date: 2017-01-24
CPC Classifications: H04N

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving at a receiver from a satellite dish a satellite signal; removing an initial radio frequency portion from the satellite signal without altering a sequence of media contents of a moving picture experts group portion of the satellite signal and without altering a quality of the media contents of the moving picture experts group portion; removing an initial conditional access portion from the satellite signal without altering the sequence of media contents of the moving picture experts group portion of the satellite signal and without altering the quality of the media contents of the moving picture experts group portion; correcting an error in the satellite signal in response to detection of the error in the satellite signal; decoding the satellite signal at the receiver to produce a digital moving picture experts group transport stream signal, the digital moving picture experts group transport stream signal including the moving picture experts group portion; encrypting the digital moving picture experts group transport stream signal at the receiver to form an encrypted digital moving picture experts group transport stream signal; and sending the encrypted digital moving picture experts group transport stream signal from the receiver to a modulator to convert the encrypted digital moving picture experts group transport stream signal to vestigial sideband signals.