Patent ID: 8863223

Claim:
A mobile set top box comprising: a docking port configured to accept a mobile computing device that has a native resolution of a first size format and receives media content from at least two different types of communications networks; a mobile device input that receives media content from the mobile computing device accepted in the docking port; a television signal input that receives at least one type of television signal; a video processor configured to receive and process the media content from the mobile device input, the video processor including adaptive circuitry to process the media content transmitted from unicast and multicast broadcasts, and the video processor including circuitry and instructions operable to process a predefined protocol stack of video packets forming at least a portion of the media content; a processor coupled to an electronic storage, the electronic storage comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to: execute an upconversion process by processing first media content from the mobile computing device, wherein the first media content includes digital video image information comprising a series of digital video frames, and is modified for display on a display device that is separate from the mobile set top box, the display device having a native display resolution of a second size format that is larger than the first size format of the mobile computing device, the upconversion process further comprising: receiving the first media content in the first size format from the mobile device input, querying the mobile computing device to determine the first size format, querying the display device, determining the native display resolution of the second size format of the display device based on a response resulting from the query of the display device, authenticating the validity of a user associated with the mobile computing device, determining, based on the validity of the user, that the received first media content is permitted to be provided to the display device, and upscaling the received first media content from the first size format to the second size format to generate upconverted first media content, wherein upscaling includes increasing a total number of horizontal and vertical pixels in each video frame of the series of digital video frames so that pixel dimensions in each video frame match the native display resolution of the second size format of the display device; and render a television signal into second media content for display on the display device, comprising: receiving the television signal from the television input; decoding the television signal into second media content; and rendering the second media content based on the native display resolution of the display device to generate rendered second media content; and an output configured to deliver the upconverted first media content and the rendered second media content from the mobile set top box to the display device.