System and method for multiple data channel transfer using a single data stream

• US 9,026,669 B2
• Filed: 12/07/2011
• Issued: 05/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Corporate World, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Bohdan Stryzak, Thomas E. Terwilliger
• Inventors: Stryzak, Bohdan, Terwilliger, Thomas E.
• Primary Examiner(s): Feild, Lynn
• Assistant Examiner(s): COX, NATISHA D
• Application Number:
  US13/313,375
• Publication Number:
  US 20130145039A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,245 Days
• Field of Search: 709/231, 370/386, 370/389
• US Class Current: 709/231
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/103 Transmitter-side switching
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1859 adapted to provide push services, e.g. data channels
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/0092 Indication of how the channel is divided
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 5/22 using time-division multiplexing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/61 for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/611 for multicast or broadcast systems for broadcast or conference H04L12/18; arrangements for broadcast or distribution combined with broadcast H04H20/00; arrangements for broadcast applications with a direct linkage to broadcast information or to broadcast space-time H04H60/00; selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS], H04W4/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/236 Assembling of a multiplex stream, e.g. transport stream, by combining a video stream with other content or additional data, e.g. inserting a URL [Uniform Resource Locator] into a video stream, multiplexing software data into a video stream; Remultiplexing of multiplex streams; Insertion of stuffing bits into the multiplex stream, e.g. to obtain a constant bit-rate; Assembling of a packetised elementary stream multiplexing of data packets for data networks, e.g. RTP/UDP H04L65/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/23614 Multiplexing of additional data and video streams arrangements for simultaneous broadcast of plural pieces of information H04H20/28
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2665 Gathering content from different sources, e.g. Internet and satellite
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/812 involving advertisement data advertising per se G06Q30/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8455 involving pointers to the content, e.g. pointers to the I-frames of the video stream
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/854 Content authoring

Abstract

A number of channels of data, including audio, image, text, and support data are collected at one or more centralized servers. The individual channels are edited and processed for content and format, including the deletion and insertion of advertising content and markers to indicate locations for additional content. These channels are then sent to a plurality of transmission servers for processing one or more of the channels including the insertion of content at designated markers and the combination of the channels of data into a single, packetized data transfer stream. The transmission servers broadcast the data transfer stream to a plurality of receiving units which de-packetize the original data channels and present any selected channel to the user of the receiving unit. The receiving units send status information back to the centralized servers where the data is processed and analyzed to evaluate the present and future use of advertisements.

Claims

1. A system for transferring a plurality of data sources using a single data transfer stream comprising:

a network operating center (NOC) including a centralized storage for said plurality of data sources; and

an editing processor for editing said plurality of data sources;

a communication link for transferring said edited plurality of data sources;

a plurality of transmission servers communicated to the communication link;

a packetizing and combining processor at each of said one or more transmission servers for cyclically packetizing and combining said plurality of data sources into a single data transfer stream; and

,

a plurality of receivers for receiving and processing said single data transfer stream communicated to the packetizing and combining processor in each one of the plurality of transmission servers, the plurality of receivers reversing the cyclic packetizing and combining performed in a corresponding one of the transmission servers, by select packets from a data package corresponding to a requested channel and reassembling these packets into the whole, original channel data enables fast channel switching in the corresponding receiver without any need to change a tuning or receiving frequency.

2. The system of claim 1 where the network operating center (NOC) is bidirectionally communicated with each of said plurality of receivers for transferring status information to said centralized storage of the network operating center (NOC) from one or more of said plurality of receivers, the receivers being intercommunicated with each other so that the status information is communicated from any receiver not finding an open path of communication to the network operating center (NOC) through another receiver having an open path of communication to the network operating center (NOC).