US 2006/0242091 A1 · Prioritization of data

Abstract

Prior art methods of receiving, organizing, and implementing the data transmitted to mobile devices, such as ESG fragments, have a great impact on mobile device performance and battery lifetime. Furthermore, in order to keep server side and client side ESG fragments in synch, any change in content of ESG fragments needs to be indicated. Additionally, any change in how ESG fragments are distributed requires the client side to verify if all the fragments are still available and valid in any new distribution set up and if their content has not changed. Aspects of the invention provide a protocol for prioritizing the ESG fragments to ensure the end user of a destination device receives more pertinent ESG data in a timely manner. Other aspects of the invention minimize the number of updates required on a client side or destination device caused by the re-distribution of the “unchanged” ESG fragments into different carousels.

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Dependent claims

A computer readable medium having computer readable instructions for performing the steps of:

(a) collecting a plurality of ESG fragments;
(b) arranging the ESG fragments into a plurality of ESG carousels, wherein an ESG carousel will comprise a plurality of associated ESG fragments;
(c) assigning the ESG carousels a value according to a first level priority, wherein carousels having the same value are arranged in a series, whereby each carousel in a single series will have the same first level priority value;
(d) for each series, prioritizing the ESG carousels a value according to a second level priority, wherein the ESG carousels are arranged within each series according to the value of the second level priority;
(e) creating an announcement carousel, the carousel comprising priority information of the ESG carousels;
and
(f) transmitting the announcement carousel and the ESG carousels to a device according to the first and second level priority values, wherein the first level priority value determines the order of transmitting the series, and the second level priority value determines ordering of transmitting carousels within each series.

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A method of receiving carousels having ESG fragments of an electronic service guide in a mobile terminal, the mobile terminal comprising a processor, a display, and memory, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving an announcement carousel at the mobile terminal, the announcement carousel comprising priority information of available ESG carousels and declaring other ESG carousels, wherein the priority information comprises at least a first level priority value and a second level priority value, wherein carousels having the same first level priority value are determined to be in a series, and the second level priority value determines the priority of the carousels within each series;
(b) receiving instructions into the memory, wherein the instructions determine the priority of receiving the available ESG carousels;
(c) initiate receiving at least one ESG carousel of a series according to the instructions;
(d) receiving a second announcement carousel at the mobile terminal, the announcement carousel comprising priority information indicating at least one carousel is no longer being transmitted and further comprising information that at least one priority value of at least one ESG carousel being transmitted has been updated;
(e) based upon the second level priority value of the remaining ESG carousels, rearranging the ESG carousels within the series of the removed carousel to be prioritized based upon their assigned second level priority value, wherein the lowest, or least prioritized, position in the series to be open;
and wherein the contents of the ESG carousels already within the series of the removed carousel are not altered, thereby the repositioned carousels remain static and do not require to be updated;
(f) reassigning at least a portion of an ESG carousel having a different first level priority value from the series of the removed carousel into the lowest position of the series of the removed carousel.

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A system for transmitting ESG fragments from a transmitter to a mobile receiver, the system comprising:

a computing device having a plurality of ESG fragments having programming information stored on a computer readable medium, the computer readable medium further having computer-executable instructions for (1) arranging the ESG fragments into ESG carousels and prioritizing the carousels, wherein the arrangement of carousels is determined by at least a first level of priority and a second level of priority, wherein the carousels having the same first level of priority are arranged in a series, wherein at least one level of priority is determined by a time period the programming information within the enclosed ESG fragments refers to, and (2) creating at least one announcement carousel comprising priority information of the ESG carousels, wherein the priority information is determined by at least the first and second level of priority information;
a transmitter for transmitting the at least one announcement carousel and ESG carousels;
and
a mobile device having a receiver for receiving the at least one announcement carousel and the ESG carousels, wherein the reception of the ESG carousels is based upon the assigned first level and second level of priority, the mobile device further having a processor for processing the received ESG fragments.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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