公开(公告)号：US20170289496A1

公开(公告)日：2017-10-05

申请号：US15624377

申请日：2017-06-15

Applicant: Echostar Technologies L.L.C.

Inventor： Roger Lynch ,  John Paul ,  Robert Drew Major ,  David Kummer

IPC: H04N5/91 ,  H04N21/442 ,  H04N21/4402 ,  H04N21/433 ,  H04N9/79

CPC classification number: H04N5/91 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04N9/7921 ,  H04N21/4263 ,  H04N21/4331 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/43615 ,  H04N21/440218 ,  H04N21/44029 ,  H04N21/44209 ,  H04N21/8456

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for capturing, transcoding, and caching off-air programming at a location local to the consumer. According to certain embodiments, a device is provided that receives off-air (e.g., broadcast) and/or cable (e.g. ClearQAM) programming via one or more antennas and caches the programming in various streams having various bit rates for later viewing using, for example, Adaptive Bit Rate (ABR) streaming. Such a device can be incorporated in a larger system that can stream content via a data communication network (e.g., the Internet) and the device in a seamless manner. The device also can be controlled by a remote system via the data communication network, and further can be configured to stream content to a remote device via the data communication network.