Patent ID: 9131276
Filing Date: 2015-09-08
Classification: H04H,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of streaming television content transmissions from over the air broadcasts to user devices, the method comprising: presenting users with a list of available television content transmissions, wherein the list of available television content transmissions is based on the over the air broadcasts available in a geographical location of each of the users; receiving requests from the users to receive selected television content transmissions among the available television content transmissions; allocating individual antenna elements, in an array of the antenna elements, to each of the individual users, so that different antennas elements simultaneously capture multiple copies of the same television content transmissions when different users want to receive the same television content transmissions, a tuner for the allocated antenna element tuning the antenna element to receive the television content transmission requested by each of the individual users to which the antenna element was allocated; receiving the selected television content transmissions with the antenna element and storing separately for each of the individual users; demodulating feeds from the antenna elements to generate unique content transmission data having MPEG-2 encoding for each of the individual users when the users have selected to receive the same television content transmission; transcoding the content transmission data of each of the individual users to content data for each of the individual users, the content data having a different encoding supported by a device of each of the individual users; and streaming the selected television content transmissions to the user devices as the transcoded content data.