Is the TIS-B traffic filter on board or on the ground?
TIS-B is part of the ADS-B system that will be required in class B and C airspace come 2020. The processing of traffic relevant to your aircraft is done on the ground to keep the airwaves "clean" as it would require transmission of much more data to show all aircraft and then have your local device filter it. In order for you to take advantage of your own "hockey puck", you first need to have installed in your aircraft the appropriate avionics, namely a GPS with WAAS and an ADS-B out or Mode S transponder. Your transponder will broadcast your location and altitude, then the ground station will process which traffic is relevant to you without the 3D boundaries of the "hockey puck" surrounding your aircraft, then it will broadcast that response out to the air. The key is that not only your aircraft can pick up the response - any aircraft with an operable ADS-B In system can read it and thus display traffic/give traffic alerts even if you don't have an ADS-B out. The key though is that without an ADS-B out the traffic information is not customized for you so critical information/traffic may be missing (what is transmitted is might not be in YOUR hockey puck).

Note: It is also possible for you to pick up signals directly from other ADS-B out equipped aircraft in your proximity without an ADS-B ground station to relay that information and they will display directly on your ADS-B in equipped system.