Patent ID: 9089003
Filing Date: 2015-07-21
Classification: H04H,H04L,H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A system supporting consumption of multimedia information using simulcasting at a plurality of locations, the system comprising: a gateway device arranged to be locally coupled to at least one of a personal area network or a wireless local area network and communicatively coupled to a wireless wide area network via a broadband network, the gateway device arranged to establish communication of the multimedia information with an access device, the gateway device being operable to identify a location of the access device and access a user profile associated with the access device, where the user profile comprises user defined parameters that identify multimedia communication characteristics including a plurality of quality levels and a corresponding plurality of locations associated with the plurality of quality levels for delivering the multimedia information, the gateway device being arranged to deliver the multimedia information according to the level of quality in the user profile associated with the location.