US 2007/0192800 A1 · Dynamic multimedia channel grouping

Abstract

A method includes determining a content type of a multimedia program at a first time for each of a plurality of multimedia channels and associating, during a first channel navigation period, each multimedia channel of a first subset of the plurality of multimedia channels with a corresponding channel number of a channel numbering sequence. The method additionally includes determining a content type of a multimedia program at a second time for each of the plurality of multimedia channels and associating, during a second channel navigation period, each multimedia channel of a second subset of the plurality of multimedia channels with a corresponding channel number of the channel numbering sequence. Each multimedia program of the first subset includes a first content type at the first time and each multimedia program of the second subset includes the first content type at the second time.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

determining a content type of a multimedia program at a first time for each of a plurality of multimedia channels;
associating, during a first channel navigation period, each multimedia channel of a first subset of the plurality of multimedia channels with a corresponding channel number of a first channel numbering sequence, wherein each multimedia program associated with the first subset has a first content type at the first time;
determining a content type of a multimedia program at a second time for each of the plurality of multimedia channels;
and
associating, during a second channel navigation period, each multimedia channel of a second subset of the plurality of multimedia channels with a corresponding channel number of the first channel numbering sequence, wherein each multimedia program associated with the second subset has the first content type at the second time.

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A computer readable medium embodying a computer program, the computer program comprising:

instructions to generate data representative of an electronic programming guide, the electronic programming guide comprising:
a first channel number sequence associated with a first set of multimedia channels having a first content type at a selected time;
and
a second channel number sequence, different than the first number sequence, associated with a second set of multimedia channels having a second content type at the selected time;
and
instructions to provide a representation of the electronic programming guide for display.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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