Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Advance decryption key acquisition for streaming media content
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Application No.: US15465162Application Date: 2017-03-21
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Publication No.: US09877069B2Publication Date: 2018-01-23
- Inventor: David Innes , William Michael Beals , David Kummer
- Applicant: Echostar Technologies L.L.C.
- Applicant Address: US CO Englewood
- Assignee: Echostar Technologies L.L.C.
- Current Assignee: Echostar Technologies L.L.C.
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Englewood
- Agency: Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Main IPC: H04N5/445
- IPC: H04N5/445 ; H04N21/438 ; H04N21/426 ; H04N21/6334 ; H04N21/61 ; H04N21/4627 ; H04N21/254 ; H04N21/418 ; H04N21/4623

Abstract:
Various arrangements are presented for reducing channel change times. A first tuner of a television receiver may tune to a decryption key transponder stream. The decryption key transponder stream may include a plurality of decryption keys for a plurality of television channels that are transmitted to the television receiver via a plurality of transponder streams. A second tuner of the television receiver may be tuned to a media transponder stream to receive a television channel. Data obtained from the decryption key transponder stream may be used for decoding the television channel.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170195715A1 ADVANCE DECRYPTION KEY ACQUISITION FOR STREAMING MEDIA CONTENT Public/Granted day:2017-07-06
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