Patent ID: 9167275
Filing Date: 2015-10-20
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: a. situating an autonomous broadcast device (ABD) behind a preexisting firewall; b. activating the ABD and establishing an Internet connection for the ABD behind the firewall, wherein the firewall prevents remote access to the ABD from outside the firewall; c. with the ABD, autonomously performing the following steps without any user intervention required at the location of the ABD and without any modification to or circumvention of the firewall: d. prior to processing the digital content, the at least one server receives the streaming parameters from the scheduler web site; and e. contemporaneously with the event, streaming from the at least one server the digital content having the first quality to a plurality of users, wherein all communications between the ABD and the scheduler web site are initiated by the ABD over the Internet connection.