Patent ID: 7783247

Claim:
A home satellite receiving system, comprising: a receiver to receive multiple satellite signals from multiple satellites; and a transmodulating outdoor unit, proximally connected to the receiver, to; tune, by multiple tuners, to the satellite signals; demodulate, by a demodulator associated with a corresponding tuner, one of the satellite signals into a corresponding bitstream composed of multiple multimedia programs, each bitstream comprising data packets containing a header that includes a program identifier that associates individual data packets with a particular multimedia program, wherein the transmodulating outdoor unit includes one tuner/demodulator pair for each satellite signal received; select, by a demultiplexer and for each bitstream, data packets associated with multimedia programs requested by a viewer based on the program identifier found in the header and form a single bitstream containing the selected data packets from the multiple streams but excluding data packets associated with multimedia programs not requested by the viewer; and remodulate the single bitstream for local transmission to one or more indoor integrated receiver/decoders over a single cable to an indoor device for display, the modulated single bitstream containing data packets from the multiple satellite signals.