Patent ID: 8831110

Claim:
A method of remotely uploading recordings of live events from remote locations to a broadcast station comprising: a) recording live events at remote locations using a plurality of electronic news gathering (ENG) units, each of the live events being recorded by one of the ENG units as a signal including both audio and video data; b) each of the ENG units encoding the signal into a data stream; c) assigning a priority level to each of the data streams; d) transmitting the data streams of the ENG units to the broadcast station through at least one base station, wherein the data streams are wirelessly transmitted from the ENG unit to the at least one base station and transmitted from the at least one base station to the broadcast station, wherein the transmission of the data streams is prioritized based on the assigned priority levels, and wherein a first ENG unit of the plurality of ENG units is configured to mark a first data stream encoded by the first ENG unit with a priority level indicator based on the assigned priority levels; and e) receiving and decoding the data streams at the broadcast station.