| CPC H04L 65/60 (2013.01) [H04L 65/1069 (2013.01); H04N 21/24 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A gateway device comprising:
one or more computer readable storage media;
one or more processors operatively coupled with the one or more computer readable storage media; and
program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media that, when executed by the one or more processors, direct the gateway device to at least:
establish an Internet connection via a telecommunications network, and send and receive Internet traffic over the Internet connection to and from devices connected to the gateway device via a local area network (LAN), wherein the Internet traffic includes content streamed to a device on the LAN from a content provider on the Internet, wherein the device comprises a streaming device connected to or integrated into a display device;
detect congestion on the telecommunication network exceeds a threshold level of congestion; and
subsequent to detecting that the congestion exceeds the threshold level of congestion:
generate and transmit a prompt to the streaming device that requests permission to switch from receiving the content streamed from the content provider to obtaining digital content from a broadcast television signal;
in response to receiving the permission from the streaming device, obtain the digital content from the broadcast television signal, wherein the digital content comprises a same content type as the content streamed from the content provider;
generate a local stream of the digital content; and
switch from transmitting the content received over the Internet connection to transmitting the local stream of the digital content obtained from the broadcast television signal to the streaming device.
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