Patent ID: 7584493
Filing Date: 2009-09-01
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. A method for processing broadcast subscription video programming, comprising: receiving from a terrestrial over-the-air wireless broadcast, broadcast programming into a micro analog tuner of a plug-in card of a portable device; separating, within the plug-in card, a vertical blanking interval from the broadcast programming and extracting encoded proprietary programming carried in the vertical blanking interval wherein the extracted encoded proprietary programming comprises subscription cable-type motion television video programming; controlling, within the plug-in card, user access to the encoded proprietary programming using conditional access technology; decompressing, within the plug-in card, video and audio data from the encoded proprietary programming using decompression technology; encoding, within the plug-in card, the video and audio data to provide the video and audio data in a desired protocol; controlling, within the plug-in card, video programming properties; and storing video programming information in memory on the plug-in card.