Method and system for monitoring and displaying signals corresponding to a transponder of a satellite in a satellite communication system

• US 8,875,190 B2
• Filed: 09/11/2007
• Issued: 10/28/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: DIRECTV, LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: The DIRECTV Group, Inc. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Barroso, Eduardo
• Primary Examiner(s): TAYLOR, JOSHUA D
• Application Number:
  US11/853,753
• Publication Number:
  US 20090068941A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,604 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 725/67
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/14 for monitoring programmes
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/28 Arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/74 of satellite networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/90 specially adapted for satellite broadcast receiving
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 17/004 for digital television systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/235 Processing of additional data, e.g. scrambling of additional data or processing content descriptors
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2404 Monitoring of server processing errors or hardware failure error or fault detection G06F11/07; monitoring in general G06F11/30
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4183 providing its own processing capabilities, e.g. external module for video decoding
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/42653 for processing graphics
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/435 Processing of additional data, e.g. decrypting of additional data, reconstructing software from modules extracted from the transport stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/44209 Monitoring of downstream path of the transmission network originating from a server, e.g. bandwidth variations of a wireless network arrangements for maintenance or administration in data switching networks involving bandwidth and capacity management H04L41/0896
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6143 involving transmission via a satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6193 involving transmission via a satellite arrangements for data linking, networking or transporting, or for controlling an end to end session in a satellite broadcast system H04B7/18526
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6543 for forcing some client operations, e.g. recording remote booting in general G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/38 Transmitter circuitry for the transmission of television signals according to analogue transmission standards H04N5/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/20 Adaptations for transmission via a GHz frequency band, e.g. via satellite

Abstract

A method and system for monitoring signals corresponding to a satellite having a first transponder generating a first plurality of channel signals, a plurality of integrated receiver decoders receiving the first plurality of signals and generating a first plurality of received channel signals corresponding to the first plurality of channel signals and a monitoring system displaying all of the first plurality of received channel signals corresponding to the first transponder.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

generating a selection signal at a broadcast control operator of a monitoring system for selecting a satellite in a satellite orbital slot and a transponder from the orbital slot;

routing the selection signal to a wall multi-viewer;

controlling the wall multi-viewer in response to the selection signal;

tuning a plurality of integrated receiver decoders to receive channel signals from the transponder and communicating the channel signals to the wall multi-viewer; and

controlling a plurality of displays in a transponder wall view for simultaneously displaying at least a plurality of the channel signals from the plurality of integrated receiver decoders using the wall multi-viewer.

2. A method as recited in claim 1 further comprising displaying every channel signal corresponding to the transponder.

3. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein the channel signals comprise digital television channels.

4. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein the channel signals comprise high definition digital television channels.