Cellular Television Broadcast System
First Claim
1. A cellular television broadcasting system comprising a first transmission station including a first location-based service router and a first plurality of television transmitters in communication with the location-based service router, each television transmitter configured to transmit content received from the location-based service router over at least one designated over-the-air broadcast television channel, wherein the location-based service router is configured to distribute common content to all of the first plurality of television transmitters and to selectively distribute different local content to different subsets of such television transmitters, and wherein each television transmitter is configured to transmit the common content and any local content received from the location-based service router over its at least one designated over-the-air broadcast television channel.
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Abstract
Information services are provided via an over-the-air television broadcasting system that is segmented into a plurality of cells. Each cell includes one or more transmitting facilities. The transmitting facilities of adjacent cells may operate on the same television channel and/or on different television channels, typically chosen from a frequency set allocated to a given service provider. The service information may include different content in different cells, such as local content specific to each cell. Content may be provided from one or more content providers in communication with the transmitting facilities.
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30 Claims
- 1. A cellular television broadcasting system comprising a first transmission station including a first location-based service router and a first plurality of television transmitters in communication with the location-based service router, each television transmitter configured to transmit content received from the location-based service router over at least one designated over-the-air broadcast television channel, wherein the location-based service router is configured to distribute common content to all of the first plurality of television transmitters and to selectively distribute different local content to different subsets of such television transmitters, and wherein each television transmitter is configured to transmit the common content and any local content received from the location-based service router over its at least one designated over-the-air broadcast television channel.
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22. A cellular television broadcasting system comprising:
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a location-based server for distributing content; and a plurality of transmitters, each transmitter in communication with the location-based server for transmitting content over at least one over-the-air broadcast television channel, wherein the content includes at least one free-to-air television broadcast distributed by the location-based server to each of the plurality of television transmitters and local content selectively distributed by the location-based server to a subset of at least one but less than all of the transmitters.
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23. A peer-to-peer network for distributing content to a plurality of peer nodes in a cellular television broadcasting system, the peer-to-peer network comprising:
at least one set of nodes, the nodes in the set managed by a hierarchically higher managing node that manages peer-to-peer communications for the nodes, such that one or more nodes are managed by a managing node and one or more managing nodes may be managed by a hierarchically higher managing node. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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