Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Delivery of subscription services to roaming users through head end equipment
- Patent Title (中): 通过头端设备向漫游用户提供订阅服务
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Application No.: US11399872Application Date: 2006-04-07
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Publication No.: US08494516B2Publication Date: 2013-07-23
- Inventor: Swarup Acharya , Bhawna Gupta , Anurag Srivastava
- Applicant: Swarup Acharya , Bhawna Gupta , Anurag Srivastava
- Applicant Address: FR Paris
- Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
- Current Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
- Current Assignee Address: FR Paris
- Agency: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP
- Main IPC: H04W4/00
- IPC: H04W4/00

Abstract:
A subscriber or other user is provided with access to a subscription service of a signal distribution system at a location remote from a home location of the user. The subscription service comprises a plurality of selectable channels available to the user at the home location. The user is assigned one of a plurality of program streams utilizable for delivery of content from the head end equipment servicing the remote location to an interface device at the remote location. By way of example, the program streams may be part of existing unicast infrastructure in the head end equipment. The head end equipment obtains content for a first channel of the subscription service available to the user at the home location, and inserts the content for the first channel into the assigned program stream to thereby make that content accessible to the user at the remote location via the interface device. User selection via the remote location interface device of a different channel of the subscription service available to the user at the home location causes the content for the different channel to be obtained by the head end equipment and inserted into the assigned program stream in place of the content for the first channel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20070240192A1 Delivery of subscription services to roaming users through head end equipment Public/Granted day:2007-10-11
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