Patent ID: 9185341
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: H04H,H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A method of providing a plurality of content elements to a plurality of users of a content distribution network, said method comprising: receiving a plurality of digital content elements which are accessed from a plurality of digital content sources having different content types, said plurality of digital content elements received as part of a multi-program transport stream (MPTS) at a transformation device; including or removing one or more of said plurality of digital content elements from said plurality of digital content elements based on serviced user requests for said plurality of digital content elements; transforming, at said transformation device, said received plurality of digital content elements to one or more frequency domain signals using digital domain processing; assigning one or more radio frequency carriers to channel allocations for respective ones of said transformed signals; and transmitting said transformed signals to said plurality of users over said assigned one or more radio frequency carriers; wherein said act of transforming comprises performing digital domain processing that aggregates respective ones of said transformed signals together according to at least one of said content types by dynamically reprogramming said channel allocations.