Patent ID: 8863222
Filing Date: 2014-10-14
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, by a media gateway, an encoded broadcast multimedia transport stream from a service provider over a delivery network, the encoded broadcast multimedia transport stream comprising broadcast multimedia content for rendering via at least one of a plurality of client devices; decoding, by the media gateway during a first time period, the encoded broadcast multimedia transport stream to extract said broadcast multimedia content; receiving, by the media gateway, a local multimedia transport stream generated by at least one of the plurality of client devices; encoding, by the media gateway during a second time period subsequent to the first time period, the received local multimedia transport stream; buffering, by the media gateway, the encoded broadcast multimedia transport stream for a third time period comprising a sum of the first time period and the second time period; and multiplexing, by the media gateway subsequent to the third time period, the buffered encoded broadcast multimedia transport stream and the encoded local multimedia transport stream into an output multimedia transport stream.