Patent ID: 7690021

Claim:
A system comprising: (a) a plurality of live event sites each producing and transmitting a live video source in a low bandwidth signal; (b) a live event director system configured to: (i) receive and monitor the low bandwidth signal of each live video source from the plurality of live event sites; (ii) control the signal transmitted by each of the plurality of live event sites and determine which of the plurality of live event sites should transmit a high bandwidth signal to be used in an overall transmission and which of the plurality of live event sites should continue to transmit the low bandwidth signal; (iii) when a particular live video source from a particular live event site is required for the overall transmission, transmit a control signal to the particular live event site causing the particular live event site to transmit, via a satellite, a high bandwidth signal of the live video source; and (iv) receive the high bandwidth signal from the satellite; and (c) a network operation center for coordinating encryption of the overall transmission at the live event director system and decryption of the overall transmission by multiple exhibitor sites, wherein the overall transmission comprises the high bandwidth signal.