Patent ID: 8887212

Claim:
A point-of-deployment (POD) module apparatus, comprising: a housing; a coaxial cable connector disposed on the housing and connectable to a first communication network to receive a cable signal therefrom; a module unit to receive the cable signal and a wireless signal from a second communication network and to generate therefrom at least one of a copy-protected video signal and a copy-protected audio signal; a connector disposed on the housing and mechanically separable from a corresponding connector on a third device and through which to transmit the at least one of the copy-protected video signal and the copy-protected audio signal to the third device such that at least one of an image and a sound corresponding to the at least one of the copy-protected video signal and the copy-protected audio signal is presented on the third device; and a port disposed in the housing to receive the wireless signal from the second communication network and being communicatively operable with at least one of: a local-area computer network as the second communication network through which to receive a computer generated signal as the wireless signal; an Internet as the second communication network through which to receive network data as the wireless signal; a wireless communication network as the second communication network through which to receive a remote control signal as the wireless signal to control the module unit and the third device; a radio station network as the second communication network through which to receive a radio signal as the wireless signal; and a serial communication network as the second communication network through which to receive video and audio signals as the wireless signal.