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US 2010/0246597 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for assigning identifiers to media services
AssigneeThomson Licensing Dtv
InventorsXiao Jun Ma, Jun Li, Lin Du, Jian Ping Song
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Abstract
A user assigns a major and minor channel number combination to a media service which does not have such a pre-existing combination, where such a media service is accessed by using such a channel combination without having to resort to the typical means of accessing the media service, such as using a web site URL or radio frequency. Optionally, the invention will automatically update the minor numbers associated with a media service when older versions of the media service become unavailable.
Claims8
A method for assigning a channel combination to a media service comprising the steps of:
- selecting a media service which does not have a pre-existing channel identifier denoted by a major and minor channel,
- assigning a major channel number and a minor channel number to the media service as so to associate a channel combination with said media service.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.