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- Patent Title: Licensed and unlicensed spectrum set-top box
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Application No.: US15426335Application Date: 2017-02-07
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Publication No.: US10021449B2Publication Date: 2018-07-10
- Inventor: Misbah ur Rehman , Steven M. Casey , Kevin M. McBride , Felipe Castro
- Applicant: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
- Applicant Address: US CO Denver
- Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
- Current Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Denver
- Agency: Swanson & Bratschun, L.L.C.
- Main IPC: H04N7/173
- IPC: H04N7/173 ; H04N21/4363 ; H04N21/63 ; H04W16/14

Abstract:
Novel tools and techniques are described for providing media content to a plurality of set-top boxes (“STBs”) over a licensed spectrum and over an unlicensed spectrum. In an aspect, each of the plurality of STBs might comprise a first transceiver configured to receive media content or data over a licensed spectrum and a second transceiver configured to receive and send media content or data over an unlicensed spectrum. The first STB of the plurality of STBs might receive a first portion of the media content at the first transceiver and receive a second portion of the media content at the second transceiver from a second STB of the plurality of STBs. The plurality of STBs might query each other to determine available frequencies and/or bandwidth, and might store results of the query in a table in local memory or in a database accessible by all of the plurality of STBs.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170150209A1 Licensed and Unlicensed Spectrum Set-Top Box Public/Granted day:2017-05-25
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