FIELD: radio engineering, communication.
SUBSTANCE: server receives multimedia data from one or more devices on a local area network, creates a multiplex signal from the various multimedia data received from the devices, and wirelessly transmits the multiplex signal over the local area network. The server is further configured such that the multiplex signal comprises a plurality of logical channels, with at least one of the logical channels representing multimedia data received from one of the devices on the network. By subsequently tuning into one or more of the logical channels of the transmitted multiplex signal, a device on the local area network can present to a user multimedia data originating from or residing on another device on the network. The multiplex signal can further contain multimedia data from sources on a wide area network, such as the Internet or a cellular telephone network.
EFFECT: providing various techniques for obtaining multimedia data from one or more sources and transmitting said data over a local network to one or more devices, thereby providing ubiquitous access to multimedia over the entire network.
31 cl, 15 dwg
