Patent ID: 8406241

Claim:
A centralized broadband gateway comprising: multiple audio/video decoders; a plurality of wireless high definition multimedia interfaces corresponding in number to a number of audio/video decoders; a memory storing computer instructions; and a controller coupled with the multiple audio/video decoders, the plurality of wireless high definition multimedia interfaces and the memory, wherein the controller, responsive to executing the computer instructions, performs operations comprising: receiving encoded compressed audio/video streams; providing the audio/video streams to the multiple audio/video decoders that decode the encoded compressed audio/video streams, and output uncompressed audio/video streams; and providing the uncompressed audio/video streams from the multiple audio/video decoders to the plurality of wireless high definition multimedia interfaces that transmit the uncompressed audio/video streams wirelessly to media devices, without deploying individual media processors at each of the media devices, wherein the number of audio/video decoders corresponds to the number of media devices.