Multimedia system and server and methods for use therewith

a multi-media system and server technology, applied in the field of communication systems, can solve the problems of no cost savings with such an in-home local area network, and the cost of a network card is at least as high

Inactive Publication Date: 2009-01-29
LAKSONO INDRA
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Currently, the cost of a network card is at least as expensive as a 56K mo

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[0077]Generally, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for channel mixing within a multimedia system. Such a method and apparatus includes processing that begins by receiving a set of channels as encoded channel data. The set of channels corresponds to the channels that have been selected by a plurality of clients via selection requests. The processing continues by interpreting the encoded data to identify a channel of interest for at least one client based on the client's channel selection request. This is typically done for each client that has provided a channel selection request to a multimedia server. The processing then continues by processing the data of the channel of interest based on a type of channel to produce generic data. For example, if the incoming data corresponds to a channel of a satellite transmission, the incoming data will be in a MPEG format. The MPEG data is converted into a generic video data such as digital RGB, digital YCBCR, et cetera. The...

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A multimedia server receives a plurality of programs of a multimedia source. The multimedia server includes a tuning module to receive the plurality of programs and to select a set of programs from the plurality of programs based on a set of program select commands that is derived from select requests. A program mixer mixes the set of programs into a stream of program data. One or more transceiving modules transmit the stream of program data on to corresponding communication paths and receive the select requests. A client module produces the select requests for one or more clients. The client module includes a selection module to produce at least one of the select requests. A network interface controller transmits at least one of select requests to the multimedia server and receives the stream of program data via the communication path or paths in response.

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CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]The present application claims priority under 35 USC 120 as a continuation of application Ser. No. 09 / 865,136, entitled, “METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CHANNEL MIXING IN A MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM”, filed on May 24, 2001 the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference thereto. The present application is further related to application Ser. No. 09 / 864,524, entitled, “METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM”, filed on May 24, 2001, issued as U.S. Pat. No. 7,099,951.TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0002]This invention relates generally to communication systems and more particularly to in-home local area networking.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0003]Communication systems are known to convey data from one entity to another. The data may be audio data, video data and / or text data. In such communication systems, the data is transmitted via one or more transmission mediums (e.g., radio frequencies, coaxial cable, twisted pair copper wire, fiber ...

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IPC IPC(8): G06F15/16G06F12/14
CPCH04N7/163H04N21/6168H04N21/23H04N21/43615H04N21/43637H04N21/25875H04N21/47202H04N21/6175H04N21/64322H04N21/6587H04N21/4542H04N21/41407H04N21/25816H04N21/2393H04N21/234363H04N21/234309H04N21/4363H04N21/440263H04N21/4126H04N21/4826H04N21/6181H04N21/2143H04N21/21H04N21/41265H04N21/234H04N21/4383H04N21/44H04N21/4532H04N21/472
Inventor LAKSONO, INDRA
Owner LAKSONO INDRA
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