Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for enhanced multimedia signal broadcast, reception, data delivery, and data collection
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Application No.: US17790693Application Date: 2021-01-04
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Publication No.: US11671635B2Publication Date: 2023-06-06
- Inventor: Chandra Kotaru , Prabu David , Susanne Elkins
- Applicant: Chandra Kotaru , Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
- Current Assignee Address: US MI East Lansing
- Agency: Quarles & Brady, LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2021/012122 2021.01.04
- International Announcement: WO2021/138692A 2021.07.08
- Date entered country: 2022-07-01
- Main IPC: H04N21/2343
- IPC: H04N21/2343 ; H04N21/61 ; H04N21/438

Abstract:
New systems and methods allow for transmission of multiple types of content protocols over a unidirectional content delivery network, such as a television broadcast. Hardware and/or software used at the network transmission location (such as a television broadcast station) and hardware and/or software located at an endpoint (such as a home television, car infotainment system, or first responder location) allow for a native ATSC 1.0 signal to have embedded within it additional content that is not encoded as ATSC 1.0 content. The non-ATSC 1.0 content can be detected and segregated from ATSC 1.0 content so that the endpoint devices (such as a television receiver) will not attempt to render the non-ATSC 1.0 content (such as, e.g., ATSC 3.0 content or application specific content) as normal ATSC 1.0 programming. Instead, the non-ATSC 1.0 content will be separately decoded, assembled, and processed to allow for multiple types of content to be used and displayed by the endpoint, even though the broadcast signal was transmitted only as an ATSC 1.0 signal.
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