Video integration

摘要

Techniques for Internet Protocol (IP) video integration within a home viewing network are provided. Locally acquired IP video content is assigned a channel on a television (TV). The assigned channel is associated with a same source input of the TV that includes other channels that present externally acquired TV programming content. The TV programming content and the local IP video content can both be accessed on a TV over the same source input via references to appropriately assigned channels.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a system comprising a processor, first internet protocol video which comprises encrypted internet protocol video content from an external source, wherein the external source is external to a home viewing network; detecting, by the system, second internet protocol video from a local source which comprises unencrypted internet protocol video content, wherein the local source is located within the home viewing network, wherein the local source is a security camera, wherein the first internet protocol video and the second internet protocol video are received over a common network feed; recognizing, by the system, a source input associated with a television, wherein the first internet protocol video is viewable on the television through the source input when a first channel is selected; presenting, by the system, an interface at the television to receive user input to assign an internet protocol address to the local source and to assign the second internet protocol video to a selected channel; receiving, by the system, user input; assigning, by the system, the internet protocol address to the local source according to the user input; assigning, by the system, the second internet protocol video to the selected channel according to the user input for viewing the second internet protocol video at the television through the source input associated with the television at the selected channel; converting, by the system, the unencrypted internet protocol video content of the second internet protocol video from a first format to a second format suitable for presentation on the television to generate reformatted unencrypted internet protocol video content; and providing the first internet protocol video and the second internet protocol video for selective presentation at the television to allow a simultaneous viewing of the reformatted unencrypted internet protocol video content from the local source with the encrypted internet protocol video content from the external source in a picture-in-picture format; wherein the unencrypted internet protocol video content and the encrypted internet protocol video content is transmitted by a common residential gateway over the home viewing network via an Ethernet connection to the system using internet protocol communications.