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US 10,095,373 B2Granted
Method and system for assigning a channel to data in a data stream
AssigneeThe DIRECTV Group, Inc.
InventorsDavid E. Feldstein, Mark A. Shurgot
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Abstract
A system and method for assigning channels includes a program guide module having program guide data associated with program channels and a content processing system receiving program feeds for the program channels and receiving data feeds. The content processing system compares event data from the data feed and identifies a first program channel by comparing the program guide data and the event data and associating the program channel with event data.
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A method comprising:
- receiving program guide data associated with video signals at a content processing system located remotely from a user device;
- receiving video signals at the content processing system;
- separately from the program guide data, receiving event data related to at least one of the video signals at the content processing system;
- comparing event data and the program guide data associated with the video signals at the content processing system;
- identifying, at the content processing system, a group of channels from program guide data corresponding to the event data in response to comparing;
- prioritizing, at the content processing system, the group of channels using hierarchical sorting to identify a first channel having a highest priority;
- associating the first channel from the group of channels with the event data at the content processing system;
- communicating the video signals, event data and video data from the content processing system to a user device;
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- displaying the event data and the first channel at the user device.
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A system comprising:
- a data provider having program guide data associated with video signals;
- a content processing system receiving the video signals and receiving program guide data separately from event data, said content processing system comparing event data and program guide data and identifying a group of channels from the video signals by comparing the program guide data and the event data;
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- said content processing system prioritizing, at the content processing system, the group of channels using hierarchical sorting to identify a first channel having a highest priority and associating the first channel from the group of channels with event data and communicates the video signals, event data and video data to a user device, said user device located remotely from the content processing system;
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- said user device displaying the video signals, event data and video data to a user device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.