Set Top Box Wireless Data Card Integration for IPTV Mobility
Find Innovative SolutionsGenerate Solutions
Solution Overview
Problem
Traditional IPTV systems lack mobility as user equipment is not movable, restricting user access to IPTV services across different locations.
Innovation Solution
Integrating a wireless data card into a TV set-top box, allowing users to establish a wireless connection to the IPTV network through a personal computer, enabling access to IPTV resources and services via a daemon application server and web browser management software, thus making the IPTV terminal device movable.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a wireless data card is integrated into the STB device, then user mobility is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the wireless data card functionality with the existing STB device by integrating the card into the STB's USB interface. This merging approach allows the STB to gain wireless capabilities while maintaining its original function, thereby improving user mobility without requiring a completely new device design.
Solution Approach 2:
The wireless data card is designed to work with the existing STB device through universal interfaces and protocols. The card can be installed and managed through the STB's existing system, allowing the STB to perform multiple functions (wired and wireless access) without increasing overall system complexity significantly.
2Ease of operation
If wireless data card installation software is installed through PC, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a PC as an intermediary device to facilitate the installation and management of the wireless data card. The PC runs installation software that communicates with the STB device, allowing users to install and configure the card through a user-friendly interface while the actual installation process is handled automatically by the STB's system.
Solution Approach 2:
The wireless data card installation system is designed to be self-service oriented, where the STB device automatically detects and installs the card through predefined protocols. The installation software on the PC guides users through simple steps, and the STB handles the technical complexity of driver installation and configuration automatically.
Data Source
AI summary
An Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) system and an implementation method thereof are disclosed. The method includes: installing a wireless data card in a television Set Top Box (STB) device through a personal computer (PC), establishing a connection with the STB device, and starting the wireless data card to wirelessly access to the IPTV network; accessing to the IPTV network resources through the PC or the STB device, implementing the IPTV service. This solution realizes that the IPTV user terminal device can access to the network wirelessly so that the IPTV terminal device have mobility in space, thus extending the application scenarios of the IPTV system.