Patent ID: 9143836
Filing Date: 2015-09-22
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. In a system transmitting a plurality of video feeds to a plurality of receivers, a method of enforcing a blackout restriction associated with at least one of the plurality of video feeds, each of the video feeds transmitted on an associated viewer channel, the method comprising: generating a plurality of mosaics, each having an plurality of video cells, each mosaic depicting each of the plurality of video feeds in an associated one of the video cells; transmitting the plurality of mosaics, wherein each of the plurality of mosaics is transmitted on a different one of a plurality of mosaic channels, each of the plurality of mosaic channels only receivable by each of the receivers according to the blackout restriction; and transmitting information to each receiver, the information identifying which, of the video cells in the mosaic channel receivable by the respective receiver, is subject to the blackout restriction.