Patent ID: 8239910
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: H04N,H04S

Abstract:
1. A content delivery network for delivering content to portable wireless handheld devices used by spectators while attending a live event, each of the portable wireless handheld devices having a wireless receiver, a display and a user interface, the network comprising: an interface to receive video signals from a plurality of video cameras located at the live event, the video cameras being located at different locations around the live event, the video cameras producing video signals containing live video content of the live event from different viewing perspectives; the interface receiving said video signals comprising at least first and second video signals—from corresponding at least first and second video cameras located at said live event, the first and second video signals containing corresponding first and second live video content of the live event from different first and second viewing perspectives; and a transmitter configured to wirelessly transmit said at least first and second video signals locally, in an area encompassing the live event, for reception by the wireless receivers of at least a portion of the portable wireless handheld devices at said live event and for selective display of the live video content; wherein, when first and second spectators select the first and second video signals, respectively, from said at least first and second video signals via the user interface of each of the corresponding first and second portable wireless handheld devices, a) only in response to the first spectator's selection of the first video signal for viewing while said live event occurs and b) until the first spectator chooses to select another live video content from another of said at least first and second video signals; and a) only in response to the second spectator's selection of the second video signal for viewing while said live event occurs and b) until the second spectator chooses to select another live video content from another of said at least first and second video signals.