Patent ID: 9584757
Date: 2017-02-28
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04N

Claim:
1. A system to provide television programming to a remotely-located display system via a local area network, the system comprising: a television receiver to receive and decode the television programming and to generate program information that represents the received and decoded television programming in a digital high definition television format that is suitable for display on a television; a base station configured to receive the program information in the digital high definition television format that is suitable for presentation on a television and to perform a network processing procedure in which the television programming is transcoded from the digital high definition television format that is suitable for display on a television to produce an output stream of data packets for transmission on the local area network, wherein the output stream of data packets represents the television programming as a packetized video stream that has a different bit rate that is lower than a bit rate of the digital high definition television format suitable for display on the television; and a network interface configured to transmit the output stream of data packets over the network to the remotely-located display system.