Electronic Program Guide Generation
AssigneeCox Communications, Inc.
InventorJames Vernon Miller
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Abstract
An electronic program guide may be provided. A plurality of encoded content streams may be received along with associated program guide information. The content streams may be re-modulated and associated with new channel assignments. Program guide entries for the content streams may be created and/or updated to reflect the new channel assignments. The re-modulated content streams and program guide entries may then be distributed to a plurality of display devices.
Claims20
A method for providing a program guide, the method comprising:
- receiving a plurality of channel streams, wherein each of the plurality of channel streams is associated with a channel;
- receiving content information associated with at least one of the plurality of channel streams;
- re-modulating the at least one of the plurality of channel streams to associate the at least one of the plurality of channel streams with a new channel;
- associating the content information associated with the at least one of the plurality of channel streams to the new channel;
- and
- generating a program guide comprising the content information associated with the at least one of the plurality of channel streams and the new channel.
A computer-readable medium which stores a set of instructions which when executed performs a method for creating a program guide, the method executed by the set of instructions comprising:
- receiving a content stream associated with a virtual channel;
- receiving a guide entry comprising program information associated with the encoded content stream and the virtual channel;
- determining whether the encoded content stream is assigned for distribution on a different virtual channel;
- and
- in response to determining that the encoded content stream is assigned for distribution on the different virtual channel, creating a new guide entry comprising the program information associated with the encoded content stream and the different virtual channel.
A system for providing a program guide, the system comprising:
- a memory storage;
- and
- a processing unit coupled to the memory storage, wherein the processing unit is operative to:
- receive a plurality of encoded content streams;
- receive a program guide comprising content information associated with each of the plurality of encoded content streams;
- re-modulate at least one of the plurality of encoded content streams;
- generate a program guide entry associated with the re-modulated at least one of the plurality of encoded content streams according to the received program guide;
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- transmit the re-modulated at least one of the plurality of encoded content streams and the program guide entry to a plurality of display devices.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.