Patent ID: 9204202
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: H04L,H04N,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method for increasing a number of media playback devices served by a communications base station, the communications base station being for transmitting data using a broadcast video band frequency and both transmitting and receiving data using a mobile broadband frequency, the method including: receiving log-in communications from a first media playback device at the communications base station on the mobile broadband frequency, the first media playback device being in an active mode, in which data is transmitted and received, during the log-in communications; receiving broadcast video content instructions from the first media playback device at the communications base station on the mobile broadband frequency after the first media playback device is able to access a data network served by the communications base station; toggling the first media playback device to an idle mode in which data is received but not transmitted by the first media playback device; and transmitting media content to the first media playback device on the broadcast video band frequency when the first media playback device is in the idle mode, wherein the communications base station is able to serve a greater number of media playback devices in the idle mode compared to a lesser number of media playback devices in the active mode, and wherein toggling the first media playback device from the active mode to the idle mode is carried out when the first media playback device transmits the broadcast video content instructions.