Incremental transmission of data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-8978089-B2
Application number	US-201313903851-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 28, 2013
Priority date	Dec 29, 2006
Publication date	Mar 10, 2015
Grant date	Mar 10, 2015

Abstract

In one form, the present teachings provide a method and apparatus for broadcasting an event. The method includes receiving data related to an event via an uplink. Another aspect of the method includes determining whether the data is broadcast on a recurring basis. The method also includes determining whether a transponder channel associated with multiplexed program channels has any unused data or bandwidth to broadcast a portion of the data along with the multiplexed program channels. Additionally, the method includes broadcasting the portion of the data in a data stream.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method to receive data, comprising:
configuring a receiving device to receive program event data and miscellaneous event data, the miscellaneous event data optionally including a recurring data flag;
receiving across a network at least one stream of program event data;
presenting the stream of program event data to a display;
receiving across the network a first segment of miscellaneous event data in a first data stream;
receiving across the networ…

Assignees

• Echostar Technologies Llc
• Echostar Technologies Llc

Inventors

• St John-Larkin David Christopher

Classifications

• H04N21/8146

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/4623

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/435

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04H20/40

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N21/235

  Electricity · mapped topic