Patent ID: 8528030

Claim:
A method of determining an operational mode of a broadcasting receiver, the method comprising: opening a resource manager session between a host device and a point of deployment (POD); and transmitting resource information, wherein the method further comprising: receiving an Ethernet frame including an internet protocol (IP) packet which carries first moving picture experts group (MPEG) transport stream (TS) packets through the IP network and a cable broadcast signal including second MPEG TS packets through a cable network; extracting the first MPEG TS packets from the IP packet; generating CableCARD MPEG Packets (CMPs) by appending a packet header to the first MPEG TS packets extracted from the IP packet and the second MPEG TS packets included in the cable broadcast signal; multiplexing the CMPs; outputting the multiplexed CMPs to the POD; decrypting CMPs encrypted by the POD and process the decrypted CMPs to he suitable for a demultiplexer; and separating the processed CMPs and route the separated CMPs.