Patent ID: 8813142
Filing Date: 2014-08-19
Classification: G08B,H04L,H04M,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of providing video service via a plurality of communications lines, wherein each of the plurality of communications lines, on its own, has insufficient bandwidth to provide the video service, the method comprising: providing a video transmission; providing the plurality of communications lines, each of the plurality of communications lines being configured to provide communication with a video reception device located at the subscriber location, wherein at least two of the plurality of communications lines are implemented using separate transport media of different physical types; segmenting the video transmission into a plurality of information sets, each of the plurality of information sets comprising a portion of the information needed to provide the video service, wherein at least some of the plurality of information sets have different sizes, and wherein a size of each of the plurality of information sets depends on a bandwidth of each of the plurality of communication lines; queuing the plurality of information sets for transmission; transmitting a first information set via a first communications line of a first type; transmitting a second information set via a second communications line of a second type; receiving the first and second information sets at the video reception device; and combining the first and second information sets to form a combined information set, the combined information set comprising the video transmission.