System and method of failure recovery for a television tuning device
AssigneeSBC Knowledge Ventures, L.P.
InventorScott White
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Abstract
A system and method of failure recovery for a television tuning device such as a set-top box is disclosed. The method includes storing, in a memory, channel data identifying a channel to which the set-top box is tuned and after the occurrence of an event, accessing the memory to retrieve the channel data and tuning the set-top box to the channel identified by the channel data. The event may be an interruption of power to the tuning device or a failure of the tuning device.
Claims19
A method including:
- storing, in a memory of a tuning device, channel data identifying a channel to which the tuning device is tuned;
- and
- after the occurrence of an event, accessing the memory to retrieve the channel data and tuning the tuning device to the channel identified by the channel data.
A tuning device including:
- a memory;
- a channel storing module to access the memory and to write channel data to the memory, the channel data identifying a channel to which a tuning device is tuned;
- and
- a recovery module which, after the occurrence of an event, accesses the channel data stored in the memory and tunes the tuning device to the channel identified by the channel data.
A tuning device including:
- a memory;
- channel storing means to access the memory and to write channel data to the memory, the channel data identifying a channel to which a tuning device is tuned;
- and
- recovery means which, after the occurrence of an event, accesses the channel data stored in the memory and tunes the tuning device to the channel identified by the channel data.
A machine-readable medium having instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform a method including:
- storing, in a memory of a tuning device, channel data identifying a channel to which the tuning device is tuned;
- and
- after the occurrence of an event, accessing the memory to retrieve the channel data and tuning the tuning device to the channel identified by the channel data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.