Patent ID: 8732770

Claim:
A system for delivering a plurality of broadcast signals, each of the broadcast signals having a plurality of channels, each of the plurality of channels transmitting data and being defined according to a broadcast channel division scheme, the system comprising: a selector for selecting individual broadcast signals from the plurality of broadcast signals; and a receiver, remote from the selector, the receiver configured to communicate with the selector via a bi-directional link, wherein the receiver requests data transmitted on a requested one of the plurality of broadcast channels of one of the individual broadcast signals selected by the selector and the receiver receives the requested data on the requested broadcast channel according to the broadcast channel division scheme using a communications channel of the bi-directional link uniquely assigned to the requesting receiver; wherein: the receiver bi-directional link is a wireless communications link; and the selector is configured to communicate with a plurality of receives via the bi-directional link, each of the plurality of receivers communicating with the selector using a communications channel of the bi-directional link uniquely assigned to the requesting one of the plurality of receivers.