Patent ID: 8826362

Claim:
A cable card, comprising: an in-band processor configured to receive an in-band signal extracted from a broadcast signal by a host device, where the in-band processor is configured to coordinate processing in the cable card and the broadcast signal further comprises an out-of-band signal that is not received by the in-band processor; a memory configured to store out-of-band spoofing data utilized by a control program to spoof a host device to interface with the cable card as if the cable card is processing data received from the out-of-band signal; wherein the control program configures the processor to: send a signal indicative of reception of an out-of-band signal to a host device electrically connected to the cable card despite not receiving the out-of-band signal; and process the out-of-band spoofing data from the memory and provide processed output data to a host device simulating data received from an out-of-band signal.